mucro

American  

[myoo-kroh] / ˈmyu kroʊ /

noun

Botany, Zoology.

plural

mucrones

1. a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.

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mucro British  

/ ˈmjuːkrəʊ /

noun

1. biology a short pointed projection from certain parts or organs, as from the tip of a leaf

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Etymology

Origin of mucro

1640–50; < New Latin, Latin mucrō sharp point

Example Sentences

Cones from 4 to 8 cm. long, subsessile, symmetrical; apophyses lustrous, tawny yellow, transversely carinate, the keel strongly convex, the mucro of the umbo more or less persistent.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Page 301: with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly Changed puncticulate to punctulate.

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

Cones from 4 to 6 cm. long, ovate-conic, symmetrical, often persistent; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, thin or somewhat thickened along a transverse keel, the umbo salient, the mucro more or less persistent.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The spores are strongly 4–5 angled, some of them square, 10–12 µ in diameter, with a prominent mucro at one angle.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The second glume is hyaline, about one and half times as long as the first, oblong elliptic, minutely 2-lobed at the apex, with a minute mucro between, 1-nerved with a scabrid keel.

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