| aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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| alate | (adjective) (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions | Synonyms: alated |
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| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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| annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| blate | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: bashful |
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| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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| calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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| calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
| coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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| immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
| inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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| inviolate | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct |
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| (adjective) (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken | Synonyms: intact |
| lanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lancelike |
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| late | (adjective) being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time | - |
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| (adjective) of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages | - |
| (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: later |
| (adjective) having died recently | - |
| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: recent |
| (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, tardy |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, previous |
| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| maculate | (adjective) spotted or blotched | - |
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| (adjective) morally blemished; stained or impure | Synonyms: defiled |
| mandibulate | (adjective) having mandibles | - |
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| nonparticulate | (adjective) not composed of distinct particles | - |
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| nonreticulate | (adjective) not resembling or forming a network | - |
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| oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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| oblate | (adjective) having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles | Synonyms: pumpkin-shaped |
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| operculate | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculated |
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| orbiculate | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbicular |
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| ossiculate | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicular |
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| paniculate | (adjective) having a panicle | - |
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| papillate | (adjective) resembling or covered with papillae | - |
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| particulate | (adjective) composed of distinct particles | - |
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| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| pistillate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: carpellate |
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| (adjective) having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant | - |
| prolate | (adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter | Synonyms: watermelon-shaped |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| reticulate | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticular |
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| sacculate | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculated |
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| serrulate | (adjective) minutely serrated | - |
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| spatulate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | Synonyms: spatula-shaped |
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| stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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| trabeculate | (adjective) of or relating to trabeculae | Synonyms: trabecular |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| trifoliolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets | Synonyms: trifoliate, trifoliated |
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| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| umbellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellar |
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| (adjective) resembling an umbel in form | Synonyms: umbel-like |
| unarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: inarticulate |
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| undulate | (adjective) having a wavy margin and rippled surface | - |
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| unguiculate | (adjective) having or resembling claws or nails | Synonyms: unguiculated |
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| ungulate | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, hooved, ungulated |
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| uniovulate | (adjective) having a single ovule | Synonyms: uniovular |
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| urceolate | (adjective) urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth | - |
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| vacuolate | (adjective) formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell | Synonyms: vacuolated |
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| vermiculate | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculated |
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| (adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms | Synonyms: worm-eaten, wormy |
| verticillate | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillated, whorled |
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