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
- multicuspidate adjective
- multicuspidated adjective
- noncuspidate adjective
- noncuspidated adjective
Etymology
Origin of cuspidate
1685–95; < New Latin cuspidātus, equivalent to Latin cuspid- ( cuspid ) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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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 Project Gutenberg
The sporidia are in one row, spindle-shaped, straight or slightly curved, rough, hyaline, uniseptic, cuspidate, pointed at the ends, 30–38�6–8�.
From Project Gutenberg
The fourth glume is coriaceous, broadly ovate, tip acutely pointed and almost cuspidate or acute, mucronate, white or brownish, reticulately minutely pitted.
From Project Gutenberg
The civets have no less than forty, and the grinders, instead of having cutting scissor-like edges, are cuspidate, or crowned with tubercles.
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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.
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