adjective
- having a blistered, puckered, or bubble-like surface appearance
Usage: botanical; technical
Examples
- The bullate leaves of the plant had a distinctive wrinkled texture.
- Botanists identified the species by its bullate leaf surface.
- The bullate appearance of the metal indicated heat damage.
- Her research focused on bullate leaf structures in tropical plants.
- The bullate pattern on the ceramic was created during firing.