Spatulate Definition

spăchə-lĭt
adjective
Shaped like a spatula.
American Heritage
Spoon-shaped in outline and attached at the narrow end, as some leaves.
Webster's New World
Spoon-shaped or spatula-shaped.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • spatula-shaped
verb
To treat or mix with a spatula.
Wiktionary
To incise the end of a pliable cylindrical structure such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.
Wiktionary

Spatulate Sentence Examples

  • In the lower jaw the three incisors are long, spatulate and horizontal, with the outer one the smallest.

  • While all have a general resemblance in the serrated edges of the bill and many other characters, Momotus has the normal number of twelve rectrices, while the rest have only ten, which in Hylomanes have the ordinary configuration, but in adult examples of all the others the shaft of the median pair is devoid of barbs for the space of about an inch a little above the extremity, so as to produce a spatulate appearance, such as is afforded by certain humming-birds known as "racquet-tails" (see HUMMING-BIRD), kingfishers of the genus Tanysiptera (see KINGFISHER), and parrots of the group Prioniturus.

  • A very distinctive dabbling duck with a large spatulate bill.

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