elongately

elongately

English

Etymology

elongate +‎ -ly

Adverb

elongately

1. (uncommon, chiefly biology) In an elongate way.
   • 1892, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales:

     Kimberley Spear-heads. Pig. 1. Elongately-lanceolatc, angular on one face, with remains of gum-mounting at base. Fig. 2. Elongately-lanceolatc, glass, with a more decided angularity.

   • 1949, Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum [India]: Natural history section:

     The shell is moderately large, elongately conical, with an elevated spire and an obtuse apex.

   • 2018, Ivan G. Horak, Heloise Heyne, Roy Williams, G. James Gallivan, Arthur M. Spickett, J. Dürr Bezuidenhout, Agustín Estrada-Peña, The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa (Springer, →ISBN), page 465:

     Conscutum ±2.54 mm long by ±1.61 mm wide, reddish-brown, elongately ovate, widest at level of coxae IV; in engorged specimens body wall expands laterally and posterolaterally, a short broadly rounded posterior process may be present.

See also

• elongatedly