1. shaped like an arrowhead, with a triangular outline and two pointed lobes extending backward
Usage: botanical; technical

Examples

• The sagittate leaves of the arrowhead plant are easily recognizable.
• Botanists use the term sagittate to describe leaves with backward-pointing lobes.
• The sagittate leaf base helps distinguish this species from similar plants.
• Many aquatic plants have sagittate foliage that resembles arrowheads.
• The field guide showed a diagram of sagittate leaf shapes.
• Students learned to identify sagittate leaves during their botany class.