cuspidate
Americanadjective
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having a cusp or cusps.
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furnished with or ending in a sharp and stiff point or cusp.
cuspidate leaves; a cuspidate tooth.
adjective
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having a cusp or cusps
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(esp of leaves) narrowing to a point
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of cuspidate
1685–95; < New Latin cuspidātus, equivalent to Latin cuspid- ( see cuspid) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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At a F.ounders dinner, the seating algorithm placed me next to Emerson Spartz, a 27-year-old with the saucer eyes and cuspidate chin of a cartoon fawn.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2020
The civets have no less than forty, and the grinders, instead of having cutting scissor-like edges, are cuspidate, or crowned with tubercles.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper 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 Gray, Asa
Has the sterile segment thicker and cuspidate, the stipe slender and the secondary veins forming a fine network within the meshes of the principal ones.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry
D. Caròta, L. Biennial; stem bristly; ultimate leaf-segments lanceolate and cuspidate; rays numerous.—Naturalized everywhere, from Eu.
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
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