Usually means: Leaf shape resembling a spatula.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. spathulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. spathulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spathulate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spathulate: Wordnik
  5. spathulate: Wiktionary
  6. spathulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. spathulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Spathulate, spathulate: Dictionary.com
  9. Spathulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Spathulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. spathulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Spathulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. spathulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. spathulate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. spathulate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Spathulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Spathulate: Medical dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Spathulate)

▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of spatulate [Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.]

Similar:
spatulose, peltated, clavulate, wedge-like, escalloped, swallow-tailed, slapable, saberlike, flatbottomed, shovelnosed, more...

Opposite:
narrow, pointed, tapered, acute, slender

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Similar:
spatulose, peltated, clavulate, wedge-like, escalloped, swallow-tailed, slapable, saberlike, flatbottomed, shovelnosed, more...

Opposite:
narrow, pointed, tapered, acute, slender



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