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Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

Resembling a small crescent. Gray.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

Having spots or blotches; maculate.

See Mammillated.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.

Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.

Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.

Having a nucleole, or second inner nucleus.

Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).

Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.

Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.

Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf (Bot.), a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.

Having small bones.

Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide. [R.]