spatulate

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
2. adjective Of a leaf: having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
3. verb To treat or mix with a spatula.
4. verb To incise the end of (a pliable cylindrical structure) such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.

Similar words

rounded simple unsubdivided spatula-shaped avicularia spatulous spatulose spatuloid spatulalike spiculated

Often followed by

fingers and or in leaves hand hands to tips