Galeate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Having a galea.
  • adj. Helmet-shaped.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to a galea.
  • adj. Helmet-shaped.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.
  • adj. Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Covered with a helmet, or furnished with something having the shape or position of a helmet.
  • In entomology, provided with a galea, as the maxillæ of certain insects.
  • In ornithology, having on the head a crest of feathers resembling a helmet; or, and oftener, having a horny casque upon the head, as the cassowary, or a frontal shield, as a coot or gallinule.
  • In botany, having a galea.
  • In ichthyology, having a casque-like induration of the skin of the head, as many siluroid fishes.
  • Helmet-shaped: as, a galeate echinus; the galeate upper sepal of the monk's-hood.
    • Equivalent
    galeated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    helmeted    helmet-shaped   
     
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