Hăs'tate or Hăs'tā-ted, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. hastatus, from hasta, spear; Fr. hasté.] (Bot.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular with the base and sides concaved, and the lobes or basal angles spreading; as, a hastate leaf. Gray.

A drawing of a hastate leaf with a pointed tip, branching veins, and two outward-pointing basal lobes. — Hastate Leaf.