lineate

English

Etymology

Latin lineatus, past participle of lineare (“to reduce to a straight line”).

Adjective

lineate (comparative more lineate, superlative most lineate)

  1. (zoology) Marked with lines.
  2. (botany) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.
    a lineate leaf

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lineate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

lineate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of lineare
  2. second-person plural imperative of lineare
  3. feminine plural of lineato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

līneāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of līneō
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