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What does lanceolate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lanceolate? Here's what it means.

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  1. (botany) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
  2. (technical) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
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A few cultivars from the United States and Asia have distinctive narrow or lanceolate leaflets.
In general, these are relatively thick and crudely flaked lanceolate bifaces with slightly expanding stems.
The leaves are longly ovate until broadly lanceolate and coarsly serrate at the tip.
The leaflets are ovate to lanceolate, sometimes hastate, and are subtended by inconspicuous stipels.
Its leaves are simple and lanceolate with capitate male flowers arranged in inflorescences of white flat.
A large evergreen shrub that grows to to 20 ft or more, the Chilean fire bush has narrow lanceolate leaves, up to 6in long.

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