cuspidate

How to use cuspidate in a sentence

• Polar spines three-sided prismatic, cuspidate, about as long as the axis of the shell.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) | Ernst Haeckel

• The second glume is broadly ovate acute, rather cuspidate, usually 5-nerved (rarely 7-nerved).

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses | Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

• Basal breadth of all six the same (three times as large as one pore); form, three-sided prismatic, with cuspidate distal end.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) | Ernst Haeckel

• cuspidate: prickly pointed; ending in a sharp point; with an acuminated point ending in a bristle.

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith

• It is therefore significant that these earlier teeth should be more cuspidate than the later teeth.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers Beddard