mucronate

American  

[myoo-kroh-nit, -neyt] / ˈmyu kroʊ nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

Sometimes mucronated

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.

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mucronate British  

/ -ˌneɪt, ˈmjuːkrəʊnɪt /

adjective

1. terminating in a sharp point

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Other Word Forms

• mucronation
  noun
• submucronate
  adjective
• submucronated
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of mucronate

1770–80; < New Latin, Latin mūcrōnātus pointed, equivalent to mūcrōn- (stem of mūcrō ) point, edge + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The fourth glume is shorter than the third, linear-oblong, mucronate or very shortly awned at the apex, paleate; palea about two-thirds the length of the glume, lanceolate.

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

The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.

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

Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks,

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

The first two glumes are unequal, narrow, keeled, membranous, 1-nerved, persistent, acute, mucronate and the second glume awned shortly.

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

Upper leaves oblong-obovate, truncate or notched, and mucronate at the apex Spring Vetch, Vicia sativa. 14b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan