sagittiform

sagittiform
A botanical descriptor, applied to leaves and some animals, meaning "to have the form of an arrowhead, but lacking flaring lobes on the base". Sagittiform leaves lack divisions and subdivisions.

This tree has sagittiform leaves.


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