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形容詞

oblongate (comparative more oblongate, superlative most oblongate)

1. Synonym of oblong
   • 1978, B.P. Bochantsev, “Species of the Subsection Tetragona (Ulbrich) Botsch. of the Section Caroxylon (Thunb.) Fenzl. in the Genus Salsola L.”, in Novitates Systematicae Plantarum Vascularium (Academy of Sciences of the USSR. V.L. Komarov Institute of Botany), volume 9, […] for the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pages 145–146:

     Stamens five; filaments linear, flat, attached on the outer side of the hypogynous disc; anthers 1.4 mm long and 0.45 mm wide, splitting up to one-half; appendage pointed, 0.25 mm long; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, lobes oblongate, strongly thickened, blunt.

   • 1981, Harold Heatwole, Terence Done, Elizabeth Cameron, Community Ecology of a Coral Cay: A Study of One-Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, The Hague, Boston, Mass., London: Dr W. Junk Publishers, →ISBN, section “Fabaceae”, subsection “Canavalia rosea (Sw.) D.C.”, page 84:

     Canavalia rosea is a trailing or prostrate herb with trifoliate leaves of oblongate to orbicular leaflets and with pink flowers (Fig. 23) (Beadle et al. 1962).

   • 2008, Pavuluri Himasagara Chandra Murthy, Rasaśāstra, the Mercurial System, Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, page 414:

     This is an oblongate light material covered on one side by bony-sheath, compactly filled with smooth-white material which can be scratched by nails.

語源 2

From New Latin oblongātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

動詞

oblongate (third-person singular simple present oblongates, present participle oblongating, simple past and past participle oblongated)

1. To extend into an oblong form; to elongate
   • 1831, George Lindley, “Peaches”, in John Lindley, editor, A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden; or, An Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated in Great Britain: […], London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 253:

     Fruit very small, the least of all the varieties, a little more long than broad, having a very conspicuous deeply marked suture, extending to the apex, on one side of which it oblongates into a very small acute nipple.

   • 1964, East Pakistan Medical Journal, page 33, column 1:

     As a matter of fact the medulla which is the part of the hind brain oblongates out of the skull cavity as a long and thick tail or cord which, again terminates into a thin filament.

2. To give an oblong shape to (something).
   • 1866 May 10, William Otis Johnson, “Suggestions as to a Possible Application of Local Anæsthesia”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. […], volume Lxxiv, number 15a, Boston, Mass.: David Clapp & Son […], published 1867, page 293:

     In the first three suppositions which illustrate the occlusion of the calibre of the intestine, it is conceivable that the sudden constriction of the abdominal walls might cause them to act vicariously for the probably paralyzed intestinal walls, and by moulding and oblongating the fæcal mass, displace it and restore peristalsis; or it may urge on the concretion to the sphincter; or excite the outside body through the valve, whence, of course, if it has already traversed the ileum, its way onward and out would be easy.

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