angulate

Shaped with corners or angles.

Adjective

  1. Shaped with corners or angles.
    • angulate leaves

    Synonyms: angled angular angulated

Origin

Borrowed from Classical Latin angulātus, from angulus (“angle”) + -ātus.

Forms

more angulate most angulate

Related

subangulate triangulate

Derived

angulately biangulate uniangulate

Verb

  1. To make, or to become, angular.
    • The platinum shaft connecting the ribbon to the piston base is a rounded wire and can be easily angulated after placement of the prosthesis for optimal incus to fenestra reach. - 2010, Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor,...

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin angulāt-, the past participial stem of angulō.

Forms

angulates angulating angulated

Related

angulated angulation