valvate

/val-veyt/US // ˈvæl veɪt //UK // (ˈvælveɪt) //

缬氨酸,代价,缬方焱蜱,缬草

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
- : serving as or resembling a valve.
- : Botany. opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers.meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds.composed of or characterized by such parts.

Cones globular, with peltate, valvate scales, firmly closed till ripe; the scales thick and pointed at the center.
Sepals 4, or rarely more, colored, the valvate margins turned inward in the bud.
Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.
Corolla salver-form or funnel-form, usually much longer than the calyx-lobes, 4-lobed, the lobes valvate in the bud.
Corolla funnel-form, 4-lobed; the lobes spreading, densely bearded inside, valvate in the bud.