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Lanceolate  [ Botany ]
Adverb: Lanceolately

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
     
  Lanceolate means lance-shaped: Rather narrow, tapering from a rounded base to a point at the apex like the head of a lance.  
     
[From the Latin  adjective "lanceolatus" (from Latin lanceola, literally  a “small lance” ]
     
Lanceolate leaf shape [ Botany]
     
  Lance-like; of a leaf, about four times as long as it is broad, broadest in the lower half and tapering towards the tip, and sometimes at the base too.  
     
 

See also: leaf shapes

 
     

 

 

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