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elongate

DEFINITIONS OF: elongate

1

v make long or longer by pulling and stretching

Synonyms:
stretch
Types:
shoetree, tree
stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
Type of:
lengthen
make longer

adj having notably more length than width; being long and slender

“an elongate tail tapering to a point”
Synonyms:
elongated
long
primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

adj (of a leaf shape) long and narrow

Synonyms:
linear
simple, unsubdivided
(botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
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