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 fourth glume is smooth, shining, broadly oblong, faintly 5-nerved, apex rounded or cuspidate with a few cilia; paleate with a single bisexual flower; palea is similar to the glume in structure.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Glumes 3-nerved, coriaceous, the flowering one abruptly cuspidate.
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
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 Asa Gray
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 Asa Gray
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