flabellate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Fan-shaped; having parts or segments that are flattened and lengthened on one side, such that they are long and narrow.

/fləˈbɛlət/

flabellate more flabellate most flabellate

Borrowed from New Latin flābellātus (“fanlike”). By surface analysis, flabell(um) (“fan-shaped structure”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

flabelliform flabellum

biflabellate

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