sulcate
having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
Origin of sulcate
1- Sometimes sul·cat·ed .
Other words from sulcate
- sul·ca·tion, noun
- mul·ti·sul·cate, adjective
- mul·ti·sul·cat·ed, adjective
Words Nearby sulcate
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How to use sulcate in a sentence
Mouth conical, beaked, strongly sulcate, seated on a depressed zone.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardSix marginal spines of equal size and at equal distances, triangular, sulcate, half as long as the radius.
Sheaths conical, sulcate, half as broad on the serrate distal end as on the base.
The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardThe plant is reddish-brown and it differs from other species "with sulcate mouths, in its closely sessile endoperidium."
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. Hard
British Dictionary definitions for sulcate
/ (ˈsʌlkeɪt) /
biology marked with longitudinal parallel grooves: sulcate stems
Origin of sulcate
1Derived forms of sulcate
- sulcation, noun
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