glabrate

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Glabrate, becoming glabrous with age, or almost glabrous.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Glabrate, 8–18´ high; leaves mostly horizontal, ovate, the upper acutish, remotely denticulate, abruptly contracted to winged petioles, not revolute; seeds often only slightly roughened, short and shortly appendaged.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa