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valvate

valvate


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Valvate  \Valv"ate\,  a.  [L.  valvatus  having  folding  doors.] 
  1.  Resembling,  or  serving  as  a  valve;  consisting  of  or 
  opening  by  a  valve  or  valves;  valvular. 
 
  2.  (Bot.) 
  a  Meeting  at  the  edges  without  overlapping;  --  said  of 
  the  sepals  or  the  petals  of  flowers  in  [ae]stivation, 
  and  of  leaves  in  vernation. 
  b  Opening  as  if  by  doors  or  valves,  as  most  kinds  of 
  capsules  and  some  anthers.