a. [ad. L. vittāt-us bound with a fillet or chaplet, f. vitta VITTA + -ATE2.]
1. Zool., Bot., etc. Marked or striped with vittæ. Cf. VITTATED a.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvi. 290. Vittate (Vittata), painted with several such stripes.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1224/1. Vittate, striped lengthwise.
2. Bot. Having a vitta or vittæ (sense 4 a).
Chiefly in combination, 1-vittate.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 153. Eryngium; primary ridges obscure 1-vittate.