explanate

English

Adjective

explanate (comparative more explanate, superlative most explanate)

  1. (botany) Flat; flattened.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      […] it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.

Antonyms

Latin

Verb

explānāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of explānō

References
  • explanate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • explanate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • explanate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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