Punctate vs Punctuate - What's the difference?
punctate | punctuate |
marked by spots, dots, points, or s.
to add punctuation to
to add or to interrupt at regular intervals
to emphasize, to stress
As an adjective punctate
is marked by spots, dots, points, or s.As a verb punctuate is
to add punctuation to.punctate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Head and pronotum densely punctate and predominantly opaque, punctures on upper half of head mostly contiguous and without extensive shiny interspaces...
(Keys to the Nearctic species of Pseudomyrmex)
punctuate
English
Verb
(punctuat)- That occurrence of "its" needs to be punctuated .
- The pristine lawn was punctuated only by the single apple tree in the centre.