spatulate

• spathulate

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/, /ˈspa.tʃʊ.lət/

spatulate (comparative more spatulate, superlative most spatulate)

1. Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 804:

     For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling (so it seemed) and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers.

2. (botany, of leaf) Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.

• subspatulate

spatulate (third-person singular simple present spatulates, present participle spatulating, simple past and past participle spatulated)

1. To treat or mix with a spatula.
2. To incise the end of a pliable cylindrical structure such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened

• spatula

spatulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of spatulātus