a. Long, narrow and flat in shape. a. spec. in Bot. = LIGULATE a. 1.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 229. Anthers strap-shaped. Ibid., II. 30. Lower lip [of blossom] oblong-strap-shaped.
1806. Turton, Linné’s Syst. Nat., VII. Expl. Terms, Strap-shaped, nearly of the same width all along.
1890. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXVI. 206. Our sketch of the ox-eye daisy, showing the outer and usually strap-shaped florets converted into barren tubular florets.
b. gen.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxx. III. 231. This cocoon is … composed of small rectangular strap-shaped pieces of the fine upper skin, or epidermis of the twig upon which it rests.
1893. Tuckey, trans. Hatschek’s Amphioxus, 156. The fibrilla [sic] grow … to such an extent that from being thread-like in form they become strap-shaped.
