Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having one or more longitudinal grooves or channels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Channeled; furrowed; grooved. Specifically— In entomology, having a central longitudinal furrow which is broad and well defined, but not very deep: said of the lower surface of the thorax when it is grooved for the reception of the rostrum.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having thin parallel channels
Etymologies
- Latin canaliculatus ("channelled"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin canāliculātus, from canāliculus, diminutive of canālis, channel; see canal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dianthoides, several Astragali, one with the pinnulae dentato serratis, petiola spinosa, a tufted Monocotyledonous plant with terete canaliculate subulate leaves, _Salvia_, Gramen alterum, Composita dislocata,”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“Shell fusiform; base canaliculate; spire elevated; columella smooth and concave.”
Internet Archive: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘canaliculate’.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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some of my favorite words
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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Jeff's Words
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