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val⋅vate

  [val-veyt]
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–adjective
1. furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
2. serving as or resembling a valve.
3. Botany.
a. opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers.
b. meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds.
c. composed of or characterized by such parts.
Origin:
1820–30; < L valvātus with folding doors. See valve, -ate 1
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val·vate   (vāl'vāt')   
adj.  

  1. Having valvelike parts.

  2. Botany

    1. Meeting at the edges without overlapping, as some petals do.

    2. Opening by valves, as the capsule of a lily or iris.

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valvate val·vate (vāl'vāt')
adj.
Having valves or valvelike parts.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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