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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Shaped like an arrow; sagittate: applied in botany to aurieulate lanceolate leaves which have the basal lobes elongated, acute, and turned downward.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Botany) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; -- of a leaf shape.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
Examples
“Julian is introduced with panels that are arrow-shaped, showing cause leading to a second-panel conclusion.”
“Round heads are ubiquitous, but narrow, arrow-shaped heads can achieve a faster sink rate.”
“Then this fat arrow-shaped cursor appears above it and makes an audible click.”
“NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon.”
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“Their arrow-shaped leaves show colorful patterns or blotches.”
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“After marching for half an hour, Oliver turned off the main trail at an arrow-shaped wooden signpost pointing the way to something called the Omphalos.”
“It seems to be coming from the direction in which the arrow-shaped wooden sign is pointing.”
“He shifted his hand from her head to her shoulder and dug his nails in hard, causing her to wince and look him in the face, her eyes drawn to the arrow-shaped decay in his upper lip, and the virulence of its infection.”
“To turn on captions, hover over the arrow-shaped icon in the lower right corner of the YouTube player and click the caption button.”
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“I snipped and bent a small arrow-shaped cookie cutter into the rectangle needed for the top piece.”
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