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flabelliform

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fla⋅bel⋅late

  [fluh-bel-it, -eyt]
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–adjective Botany, Zoology.
fan-shaped.
Also, fla⋅bel⋅li⋅form  [fluh-bel-uh-fawrm] .

Origin:
1810–20; < L flābell(um) fan + -ate 1
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fla·bel·late   (flə-běl'ĭt, flāb'ə-lāt')   
adj.  Fan-shaped.

[Latin flābellum, fan; see flabellum + -ate1.]
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