ligulate

Strap-shaped.

Having a ligule.

In botany: Strap-shaped: said chiefly of the rays of the tubuliflorous and the corollas of the liguliflorous Compositæ.

Furnished with a ligule: as, a ligulate grass; having a ligulate corolla: as, a ligulate flower; having ligulate flowers: as, a ligulate head.

In zoology, strap-shaped: specifically applied

to the cochlea of vertebrates below mammals, in distinction from helicine or helicoid;

in entomology, to parts which are long, narrow, flat, and parallel-sided or nearly so, as the tongue of a butterfly.

Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.

Composed of ligules.

a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.