a. Bot. and Zool. [ad. mod.L. sūbulātus, f. sūbula awl: see -ATE2. Cf. F. subulé.] Awl-shaped; slender and tapering to a point.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xiii. (1765), 31. Subulate, Awl-shaped.

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1785.  Phil. Trans., LXXV. 9. Our bird … has a weak, slender, subulate bill.

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1785.  Martyn, Lett. Bot., xiii. (1794), 132. Flowers in a spike, with a subulate receptacle.

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1817.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xvii. II. 33. Their long and large head, armed with very long subulate mandibles.

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1887.  W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 303. Margin unevenly fringed with somewhat roughened subulate hairs.

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  Comb.  1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., viii. (1858), 136. Radical leaves subulate-striated.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 206. Involucral bracts … subulate-lanceolate.

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  So Subulated a., with comb. form Subulato-.

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1752.  Hill, Hist. Anim., 495. The beak of the Sturnus is of a subulated figure.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., II. xx. (1765), 118. The upper Filament is subulato-setose.

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1773.  G. White, Selborne, To Barrington, 8 July. The hippoboscæ hirundinis, with narrow subulated wings.

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1833.  Hooker, in Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. I. 21. Leaves subulato-setaceous.

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