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Hastate

//ˈhæsteɪt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a spear.
  2. 2
    Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hastate, borrowed from Latin hastātus (“armed with a spear”), from hasta (“spear”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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