hastatelyadv.
/ˈhasteɪtli/, U.S. /ˈhæˌsteɪtli/ Botany.
In or into a hastate form (see hastate adj. 1); tending towards a hastate shape. Chiefly prefixed to adjectives, as hastately lobed, hastately sagittate, etc.; cf. hastate adj. Compounds 1 and hastato- comb. form.
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1817 Bot. Reg. 3 189 Two lowest [petals] hastately ovate, entire.
1876 A. Gray in Botany (Geol. Surv. Calif.) I. 299 Leaves all opposite, petioled, hastately sagittate, entire.
1892 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) No. 65–6 140 A pretty little species..having a hastately trilobed lip, the disc of which is light purple.
1902 Bot. Gaz. 34 361 Its great fleshiness, its large spikes and lax habit, and hastately toothed leaves.
1939 Brittonia 3 282 Terminal leaflets hastately 3-lobed to broadly hastately deltoid.
1972 R. Lavoott tr. Flora U.S.S.R. 24 69 Leaves alternate, hastately cordate.
2005 R. L. Lehman et al. Plants Texas Coastal Bend 133 Pericarp free from seed; lower leaves hastately lobed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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