(thing) by BioTech Sun Feb 09 2003 at 6:04:53
A type of leaf shape; generally like an arrowhead but with triangular lobes branching out from the base of the leaf.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:04:36

Has"tate (?), Has"ta*ted, a. [L. hastatus, fr. hasta spear. Cf. Gad, n.]

Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

 

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