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patulous

[pach-uh-luhs] / ˈpætʃ ə ləs /


ADJECTIVE
spreading
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The gland-ducts are enlarged, patulous or plugged with sebaceous and epithelial matter.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

Cones from 5 to 8 cm. long, short-pedunculate, erect or patulous; ovate-conic, symmetrical; apophyses rufous brown, low-pyramidal, the umbo mutic.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The patulous elms, then, exercised their influence on the manœuvres.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)

Weather jolly, but altogether too hot for anything but lying on the grass "under the tegmination of the patulous fage," as the poet observes.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir




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