The leaves are fleshy, and ligulate or strap-shaped; and the stems are frequently hollow.
The heads are terminal, consisting of yellow, ligulate florets, surrounded by five large cordate bracts.
All the florets are ligulate or strap-shaped, and yellow.
On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.
The passage ofligulate to tubular corollas among Compositæ is not of such common occurrence as is the converse change.
I owe to Mr. Berkeley the communication of a capitulum of a species of Bidens, in which there was a transition from the form of ligulate corollas to those that were deeply divided into three, four, or five oblong lobes.
The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
Ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.
The ligulate or Strap-shaped corolla mainly belongs to the family of Compositae, in which numerous small flowers are gathered into a head, within an involucre that imitates a calyx.
Rays orligulate flowers none; corollas all tubular (or rarely none).
Corolla ligulate in all the flowers of the head, and all the flowers perfect.
Heads discoid, the flowers all alike and tubular; or else radiate, the outer ones ligulate and pistillate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ligulate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
