Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having angles or an angular shape.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To make or become angular.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Formed with angles or corners; of an angular form; angled; cornered: as, angulate stems, leaves, petioles, etc.
  • To make angular or angulate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having angles or corners; angled.
  • transitive verb To make angular.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped with corners or angles.
  • adjective botany, zoology The shape of stems, leaves and wings.
  • verb To make, or to become, angular

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having angles or an angular shape
  • verb make or become angular

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the latin angulus, an angle.

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  • having an angular form

    June 12, 2007