Leaf Spelling Dictionary

lancealate looks like two words. It is one.

schwaThree of the five vowels in lanceolate are unstressed. The ear gets a blur and the fingers pick a letter.

heard aslancealate
spelledlanceolate
saidLAN-see-uh-layt

One word, spelled lanceolate.

This one is worth a second look, because alate is a real botanical word: it means winged, of a stem or a stalk. Lance plus alate reads like a compound that ought to exist. It does not. The word is a single Latin adjective and the o in the middle belongs to lanceola, not to a second word.

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