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Spatulate

adjective
(Also written spathulate)
1.
(of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base.  Synonym: spatula-shaped.



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"Spatulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... credit, be it said that there was no tone of half-exultation, almost pardonable after my manner of annoyance, as he went on. His heavy, spatulate finger-tips were stripping the little twig bare of its leaves. As he continued, I fixed my lowered eyes on that bit of alder. I remember every tiny, bright brown knot on it, and how one worm-eaten leaf curled ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich


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