Definitions

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

  • adjective Having a puckered or blistered appearance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bubble or boil.
  • In botany, having elevations like blisters.
  • In pathology, blistered.
  • In anatomy, inflated; vaulted; ventricous; fornicated and with thin walls: as, a bullate tympanic bone (that is, one forming a bulla ossea).
  • In zoology, having the surface covered with irregular and slight elevations, giving a blistered appearance.

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

  • adjective (Biol.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
  • adjective (Bot.) a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

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

  • adjective medicine Resembling a bulla or blister; inflated; blistered; bulliform.
  • adjective medicine Of bacterial cultures, having a a growth which is blistered; rising in convex prominences.

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

  • adjective of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin bullātus, from bulla, bubble.]

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  • having a puckered or blistered appearance

    June 12, 2007