acuminate
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Etymology
Origin of acuminate
1595–1605; < Latin acūminātus (past participle of acūmināre ), equivalent to acūmin- (stem of acūmen ) acumen + -ātus -ate 1
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Another species in crisis is the acuminate crayfish, which is unique to Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, experts said, and found largely in the Anacostia watershed.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
A series of fortunate events brought me to a floor somewhere in the mid-twenties of London’s most acuminate skyscraper, the 72-storey, 306-metre Shard.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
Leaves narrower, gradually acuminate, finely serrate.—In wet places and along streams, etc.; our most widely distributed and variable species.—S. myricoìdes, Muhl.
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 Asa Gray
American beech.—Leaves ovate, acuminate, thickly toothed, downy beneath, ciliate on the margin.
From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. Fuller
Empty glumes persistent, narrow, acuminate, more or less unequal, the longer usually a little shorter than the rather rigid acuminate flowering one.
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 Asa Gray
Furunculus, or boil, is an acute, deep-seated, inflammatory, circumscribed, rounded or more or less acuminated, firm, painful formation, usually terminating in central suppuration.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The Pecteropus Maderensis, Woll., is of a greenish-brassy tinge in Porto Santo, and much acuminated in front; whereas on the Dezerta Grande it is almost invariably coppery, and less narrowed anteriorly.
From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Thomas Vernon Wollaston
Apex more or less acuminated; width and thickness variable; sides strongly furrowed.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Mandibles, with four large, pointed, equal-sized teeth, with the inferior angle very narrow, acuminated like a single spine.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The lesions are usually pin-head in size, whitish or yellowish, seemingly more or less translucent, rounded or acuminated, without aperture or duct, are superficially seated in the skin, and project slightly above the surface.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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