Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany and zoology, spurred; furnished with spurs or spur-like processes: as, a calcarate corolla, such as that of larkspur.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Armed with a spur.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Calcaratum ne£tarium; a calcarate or fpur - fhaped nectary.”
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