ensate

From New Latin ensatus, from Latin ensis (“sword”).

ensate (comparative more ensate, superlative most ensate)

1. (archaic, botany, zoology) sword-shaped

   ensate appendages

   ensate ovipositors

   ensate leaves

• ensiform

• “ensate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Santee, Senate, atenes, enates, sateen, senate, tenase