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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CALCARATE

a.Furnished with a spur; as a calcarate corol, in larksupr; a calcarate nectary, a nectary resembling a cocks spur.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CALCARATE; CALCARATED

Cal "ca *rate, Cal "ca *ra `ted, a. Etym: [LL. calcaratus, fr. L. calcar. See 2d Calcar. ]

 

1. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Armed with a spur.