Meanings
comparative more explanate · superlative most explanate
- biologyFlat; flattened.
[…]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.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4Synonyms: inflated
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFlat; flattened.
Origin
- Latinexplānātus“flattened”
- Englishexplanate
First attested in 1803; borrowed from Latin explānātus (“flattened”), perfect passive participle of explānō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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