urceolate, a.
(ˈɜːsiːələt)
[ad. mod.L. urceolatus, f. L. urceolus urceolus.]
1. Having the shape of an urn or pitcher; esp. in Bot., Anat., etc.
| a. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. (1765) 229 The Corolla is Urceolate, Pitcher-shaped, when it is inflate and gibbous on all Sides, after the Manner of that Vessel. 1776 Martyn Lett. xxvi. (1785) 408 An urceolate or pitcher-shaped stigma. 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 14 Calix regularly urceolate. 1832 Lindley Introd. Bot. 104 They thus form a single urceolate body. 1887 W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 216 Hymenium urceolate, black; stem short. |
| b. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 423 In the Rutelidæ, the labium is urceolate. 1847 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 4/1 Capsule Animalcules..; body..covered with a univalve urceolate or scutellate shell. 1867 Murchison Siluria ix. (ed. 4) 203 The glabella has only two pairs of furrows and is long and urceolate. |
| c. 1823 Christie's Catal. Grk. Vases of Englefield 18 A small Vase (urceolate) with triply-scalloped lip. 1833 Christie & Manson's Catal. Grk. Pottery, etc. 8 A one-handled urceolate vase. |
2. ‘Provided with or contained in an urceolus, as a rotifer’ (
Cent. Dict., 1891).