Usage examples (24)

• The seed organs are curious, the stigma being foot-stalked, peltate, and placed between and above the anthers.
• Leaves are peltate, 60-90 cm in diameter on very long petioles and are often raised 1-2 m above the surface of the water.
• Fronds oblong, two to seven inches long, deeply pinnátifid, gray and scurfy underneath with peltate scales having a dark center.
• = -- The leaves of Hazels may often be found with their margins coherent at the base, so as to become peltate, while in other cases, the disc of the leaf is so depressed...