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Elongate   /ɪlˈɔŋgeɪt/   Listen
Elongate

adjective
1.
(of a leaf shape) long and narrow.  Synonym: linear.
2.
Having notably more length than width; being long and slender.  Synonym: elongated.  "The old man's gaunt and elongated frame"



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"Elongate" Quotes from Famous Books



... push up or elongate the bud by its elasticity, like the pith in the callow quills of birds. This medulla Linneus believes to consist of a bundle of fibres, which diverging breaks through the bark yet gelatinous ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin
... left an enormous star trembles. It seems to breathe and its rays alternately elongate and withdraw again. Its white fire appears to flow. I look upon the constellations, behind which there are other spaces of constellations, which hide still more constellations, until the glance is lost in luminous embers like ...
— Romance of the Rabbit • Francis Jammes


Words linked to "Elongate" :   tree, elongated, lengthen, long, elongate leaf, simple, unsubdivided, elongation, shoetree, stretch, linear


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