sagittate
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An arum, with a woody stem, and with large sagittate leaves, rose in the very middle of a pool the temperature of which was 70 degrees.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
This belt is divided into four spaces, in each of 413 which there is a checkered, terraced pyramid pointing downward; the lower part and sides of each space is occupied with triangular and sagittate figures.
Anthers sagittate, the basal lobes attenuate into tails.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Leaves more or less sagittate; spathe green Arrow Arum, Peltandra virginica.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
The corolla was snow-white, except for a minute, sagittate marking of bright cerise on the lower lip.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
