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English
Etymology
From Latin explanatus (“flattened”).
Adjective
explanate (comparative more explanate, superlative most explanate)
- (botany) Flat; flattened.
1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:[…] it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
Antonyms
Latin
Verb
explānāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of explānō
References
- “explanate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “explanate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- explanate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
explanate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of explanar combined with te