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English-Thai Dictionary

valvate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VALVATE

a.[See Valve. ] Having or resembling a valve.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VALVATE

Valv "ate, a. Etym: [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 æstivation, and of leaves in vernation. (b ) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.

New American Oxford Dictionary

valvate

val vate |ˈvalˌvāt ˈvælveɪt | ▶adjective Botany (of sepals or other parts ) having adjacent edges abutting rather than overlapping. Compare with imbricate. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin valvatus ‘having folding doors, ’ from valva ‘valve. ’

Oxford Dictionary

valvate

valvate |ˈvalveɪt | ▶adjective Botany (of sepals or other parts ) having adjacent edges abutting rather than overlapping. Compare with imbricate. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin valvatus ‘having folding doors ’, from valva ‘valve ’.