What is "sagittate"

Sagittate \Sag"it*tate\, a. [NL. sagittatus, fr. L. sagitta an arrow.] Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

a. 1 Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point a one end, and two points at the other. 2 (context botany of leaves English) Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base.

adj. of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: sagittiform, arrow-shaped]