[1825–35; ‹ LL rosul(a) (L ros(a) rose1 + -ula-ule) + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: breakdown, cross section, individualism, spiritualism, torque-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'rosulate' in a sentence
rosulate
The plants showed short stems with rosulate leaves and possessed an aerial axis branching, the paraclades.
Scatena Vera Lúcia, Rosa Michele Marcelino 2001, 'Morphology and anatomy of the vegetative organs and scapes from Aphorocaulon (Paepalanthus,Eriocaulaceae)', Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132001000100007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)