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urceolate

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ur⋅ce⋅o⋅late

  [ur-see-uh-lit, -leyt]
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–adjective
shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like the body of a pitcher and contracted at the orifice, as a corolla.
Origin:
1750–60; < NL urceolātus, equiv. to L urceol(us), dim. of urceus pitcher + -ātus -ate 1
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ur·ce·o·late   (ûr-sē'ə-lĭt, ûr'sē-ə-lāt')   
adj.  Shaped like an urn: an urceolate corolla.

[New Latin urceolātus, from Latin urceolus, diminutive of urceus, jug.]
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