Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIG'U-LATE, or LIG'U-LA-TED, a. [L. ligula, a strap.]

Like a bandage or strap; as, a ligulate flower, a species of compound-flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular. This is the semiflosculous flower of Tournefort. – Botany.