cuspidate

American  

[kuhs-pi-deyt] / ˈkʌs pɪˌdeɪt /

Also cuspidated

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps.

2. furnished with or ending in a sharp and stiff point or cusp.

   cuspidate leaves; a cuspidate tooth.

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cuspidate British  

/ ˈkʌspɪdəl, ˈkʌspɪˌdeɪt /

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps

2. (esp of leaves) narrowing to a point

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Other Word Forms

• multicuspidate adjective
• multicuspidated adjective
• noncuspidate adjective
• noncuspidated adjective

Etymology

Origin of cuspidate

1685–95; < New Latin cuspidātus, equivalent to Latin cuspid- ( see cuspid) + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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

Low, 3–12´ high, often spreading; spikes few-flowered, often with but 2 or 3 perigynia; perigynium short, inflated, very blunt, nearly globose or obovate; scale short, not prominently cuspidate or the upper ones wholly blunt.

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

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

If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

The first glume is the shortest, ovate, acuminate, aristate or cuspidate, hyaline, glabrous and 3-nerved.

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