Crossword-Solution: HASTATE 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The leaves are doubly hastate or halberd shaped, and somewhat wrinkled: the lower ones measure from twelve to fourteen inches in length, and from six to eight in breadth.

Gad, n.] Defn: Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

Tall biennial (3--7° high), with many small heads in a loose panicle, on diverging peduncles; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, pointed, sharply and sometimes doubly serrate, sometimes hairy on the midrib beneath, contracted into a winged petiole, the lowest occasionally sinuate or cleft at base, and the cauline sagittate or hastate; achenes beakless; pappus white.

Erect or prostrate (1--4° high), dark green and glabrous or somewhat scurfy; leaves narrowly lanceolate hastate (1--4´ long), the lower sometimes opposite, entire or sparingly sinuate-dentate, petioled, the upper lanceolate to linear; flowers clustered in rather slender spikes, the two kinds together or separate; fruiting bracts ovate-triangular or rhombic-hastate, entire or toothed, often muricate on the back, united to near the middle.--Very variable.

Erect or spreading, stout, at least the lower leaves broadly triangular-hastate, often coarsely and irregularly toothed.