flabellate

Borrowed from New Latin flābellātus (“fanlike”). By surface analysis, flabellum +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /fləˈbɛlət/
• Rhymes: -ɛlət

flabellate (comparative more flabellate, superlative most flabellate)

1. (botany, zoology) Fan-shaped; having parts or segments that are flattened and lengthened on one side, such that they are long and narrow. [from 1819]

This term is used to describe the antennae of several kinds of beetles, where the last segments are shaped like a deck of cards. Flabellate antennae are a form of clubbed, or clavate antennae.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

flabellate

1. feminine plural of flabellato

flabellate f pl

1. feminine plural of flabellato

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

flabellate

1. inflection of flabellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

flābellāte

1. vocative masculine singular of flābellātus