Usually means: Having strap-shaped flower petals.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word ligulate:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ligulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. ligulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ligulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ligulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ligulate: Wordnik
  6. ligulate: Wiktionary
  7. ligulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ligulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ligulate, ligulate: Dictionary.com
  10. Ligulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ligulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Ligulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. ligulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. ligulate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ligulate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. ligulate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ligulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ligulate)

▸ adjective:  Shaped like a strap or long tongue
▸ adjective:  Having a ligule

Similar:
ligulated, linguliform, lorate, strigulated, virgulate, fungilliform, longilabrous, stipiform, fungiform, licheniform, more...

Opposite:
tubular, non-ligulate, non-strap-shaped

Phrases:
ligulate flower, more...

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Similar:
ligulated, linguliform, lorate, strigulated, virgulate, fungilliform, longilabrous, stipiform, fungiform, licheniform, more...

Opposite:
tubular, non-ligulate, non-strap-shaped

Phrases:
ligulate flower, more...



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