apiculate

American  

[uh-pik-yuh-lit, -leyt] / əˈpɪk yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. tipped with a short, abrupt point, as a leaf.

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apiculate British  

/ əˈpɪkjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. (of leaves) ending in a short sharp point

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Etymology

Origin of apiculate

From the New Latin word apiculātus, dating back to 1820–30. See apiculus, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The third glume is slightly longer than the second, oblong-ovate, apiculate, 5-nerved and paleate; palea 1/8 inch obtuse.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The second glume is oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, chartaceous, 3-nerved and with a perfect flower; palea is as long as the glume, 2-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The nodding, lenticular, umbilicate sporangium, barely attached to the apiculate stipe, is sufficient to distinguish this elegant little species, recognized and quite aptly characterized by mycologists for more than one hundred years.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The third glume and the succeeding flowering glumes are ovate-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, with sub-marginal lateral veins; palea are broadly oblong with silkily ciliate keels.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Stems short, cespitose, creeping or ascending, subsimple, with numerous offshoots; leaf-lobes broadly ovate, entire, mostly obtuse and apiculate; involucral leaves sometimes denticulate; perianth small, subcuneate, entire.

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