Spatulate

What do we mean by spatulate?

Shaped like a spatula. adjective

Shaped like a spatula; in zoology and anatomy, spoon-shaped, or rounded more or less like the outlines of a spoon; spatuliform; in botany, shaped like a spatula; resembling a spatula in shape, being oblong or rounded with a long narrow attenuate base: as, a spatulate leaf, petal, or other flattened organ. Also spathulate. See cuts under Eurynorhynchus, paddle-fish, Parotia, Prioniturus, Spathura, and shoveler.

Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base. adjective

Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity. adjective

Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base. adjective

To treat or mix with a spatula. verb

(of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base adjective

To treat or mix with a spatula.

To incise the end of a pliable cylindrical structure such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened

To remove by means of scraping. Urban Dictionary

Noun: To slap somone with a spatula Urban Dictionary

V. to bludgeon some with a spatula Urban Dictionary

A small man satchel, used to store spatulas. Perfect for the traveling chef! Urban Dictionary

To be attacked by some form of culinary or kitchen utensil without a blade or sharpness of some sort. The word originates from a spare of the moment tounge waggle and this fantastic word spilled out. Urban Dictionary

To mass debate with 1 or more spatulas. Urban Dictionary

The act of striking someone or something with a spatula, usually to punish a stupid act. Urban Dictionary

A general word used for when one sees an attractive person and proceeds to make noice or make physical movements Urban Dictionary

1. a bitch so nasty you should hit her with a spatula. 2. doing something so dumb that it deserves gettin hit with a spatula Urban Dictionary

Flatulence that results in sudden spatula-shaped excretions. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to spatulate:
spatulate, spatulae, spathulate, speculate, spatula, saturate, spatulas, sporulate, spatulated, spiculate, gratulate, spatule, spinulate, spatular, spatiate, spirulate, septulate, spacelate, statuate.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spatulate:
obtuse, lanceolate, extremity, spoon, leaf, hairs, thorax, snout, margins, fore, lobes, teeth, apex, densely, petals, flowering, tips, dorsal, rounded, tip, shaped, angle, larvae, lateral, mouth, margin, pale, inches, flowers, scales, flower, leaves, neck, tail, shape, smooth, broad, ridge, stem, colour, slightly, wings, yellow, legs, case, wide, strongly, outer, heads, male, long, genus, straight, orange, length, dark, upper, covered, derived, plant, brown, head, longer, white, bill, green, black, female, either, base, body, species, similar, usually.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spatulate:
lower, more, broad, hand, large, short, joint, forebody, little, elongate, oblong.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spatulate:
fingers, leaves, tips, hands, hand, tip, form, end, bill, process, scales, shape, spines, ends, setae, head, finger, thumb, teeth, hairs, incisors, type, tool, fingertips, tools, blade, tail, avicularia, blades, thumbs, entire, objects, feet, object, processes, lobes, lobe, forms, bills, crowns, implements, ribs, point, bristles, snout, watson, seta, portion, nails, nose, leaf, plate, celt, structures, extremity, tooth, toes, forefinger, bone, celts, foot, termination, handle, appearance, subject, toothpick, web, segments, heads, appendages, expansion, pubescent, petals, canines, qualities, mandible, avicularium, piece, outline, shapes, seconds, organ, sepals, feathers, mandibles, aura, segment, formation, foliage, tentacles, rostrum, valves, terminal, instrument, fingertip, apex, crown, bracts, stigma.

Words that sound like spatulate:
spatulate, spathulate, spatula, speciale, spatulas, septulate, spirulate, sporulate, satellite, specialist, speculate, specially, specialize, socialite, sattelite, spatular, sattilite, spatially, satellit, spackled, spacially, special act, speciate, spatule, satcheled, spatialize, spinulate, sportulae, satillite, spill out, spell out, spilite, special, spotlight, specialty, satchel, specials, saturate, spatial, speckled, spacial, situate, spackle, specialized, sachel, specialise, satchell, spinally, specialised, satchels, scituate, solate, spookily, spackling, spattle, spiculate, spanaway, spikelet, spoliate, spotlit, statuate, acidulate, spatiality, speech act, sacalait, scutellate, sepiolite, serrulate, sigillate, situla, spacelate, spatchcocked, spatel, spatiate, spatulation, speechified, sperrylite, spikily, spirelet, spongelet, spoonily, sportula, sporulates, spottily, suggilate, suggillate.