hastate leaf

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   a leaf shaped like a spearhead with flaring pointed lobes at the base

   Broadersimple leaf

Questions about hastate leaf

What does hastate leaf mean?

hastate leaf means "a leaf shaped like a spearhead with flaring pointed lobes at the base".

Is hastate leaf a common word?

hastate leaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.