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Maleate vs Galeate - What's the difference?

maleate | galeate |

As a noun maleate

is any salt or ester of maleic acid.

As an adjective galeate is

of or relating to a galea.

maleate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) any salt or ester of maleic acid

    • galeate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * galeated

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to a galea.
  • (botany) Helmet-shaped.
  • *
    • it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
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