apiculate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of apiculate
From the New Latin word apiculātus, dating back to 1820–30. See apiculus, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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P. apiculate, striato-sulcate, glabrous; g. arcuate, distant; s. filiform, pellucid, pruinose, base downy, rooting; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The spores are globose and smooth, often apiculate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
More or less chaffy, 2–5° high; leaves obovate-oblong, prominently glandular-mucronate, strigose-hirsute especially above; filaments glabrous; capsule beset with short gland-tipped bristles; seeds merely apiculate.
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
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 K. Rangachari
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 K. Rangachari
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