Definition for HAS'TATE, or HAS'TA-TED

HAS'TATE, or HAS'TA-TED, a. [L. hastatus, from hasta, a spear.]

In botany, spear-shaped; resembling the head of a halberd; triangular, hollowed at the base and on the sides, with the angles spreading; as, a hastate leaf. Martyn. Lee.

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