Associations to the word «Hastate»

Wiktionary

HASTATE, adjective. Of, or pertaining to a spear.
HASTATE, adjective. (botany) (of leaves) Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base.

Dictionary definition

HASTATE, adjective. (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne