spatulate

adjective

Shaped like a spatula.

Shaped like a spatula; in zoology and anatomy, spoon-shaped, or rounded more or less like the outlines of a spoon; spatuliform; in botany, shaped like a spatula; resembling a spatula in shape, being oblong or rounded with a long narrow attenuate base: as, a spatulate leaf, petal, or other flattened organ. Also spathulate. See cuts under Eurynorhynchus, paddle-fish, Parotia, Prioniturus, Spathura, and shoveler.

adjective

Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.

adjective

Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.

adjective

Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.

verb

To treat or mix with a spatula.

adjective

(of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base