mucro

American  

[myoo-kroh] / ˈmyu kroʊ /

noun

Botany, Zoology.

mucrones plural

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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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• mucrones
  plural

Etymology

Origin of mucro

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

Example Sentences

Cones from 6 to 12 cm. long, ovate-conic, oblique, serotinous, reflexed; apophyses lustrous tawny yellow, convex, the posterior gradually larger and more prominent than the anterior scales, the umbo flat or depressed, the mucro deciduous.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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

The fourth glume is ovate or oblong, rugulose, chartaceous, apex with a distinct mucro concealed in the second and third glumes; palea same as the glume in texture, etc.

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

Cones usually very small, from 4 to 6 cm. long, but with a larger varietal form, ovate to long-conic, symmetrical; apophyses nut-brown, flat or tumid, the mucro usually deciduous.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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.