Hastate Definition

hăstāt
adjective
Having a triangular shape like a spearhead, as some leaves.
Webster's New World
Having the shape of an arrowhead but with the basal lobes pointing outward at right angles.
Hastate leaves.
American Heritage

Of, or pertaining to a spear.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • spearhead-shaped

Origin of Hastate

  • From Latin hastātus (“armed with a spear”), from hasta (“spear”) + -ātus.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin hasta spear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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