mucronate

American  

[myoo-kroh-nit, -neyt] / ˈmju 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

Cotyledons 2.—Leaves evergreen, flat, mucronate, rigid, scattered, 2-ranked.

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

Leaves thick, ovate, acuminate, acute at base, obscurely mucronate, serrate, finely pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, one half as wide.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Fruit oblong, with very slender ribs, no oil-tubes, depressed stylopodium, and seed-face somewhat concave.—Smooth annual, with ovate perfoliate entire leaves, no involucre, involucels of 5 very conspicuous ovate mucronate bractlets, and yellow flowers.

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

Empty glumes membranaceous, carinate, acute, unequal; flowering glume slightly longer, 1–3-nerved, 2-toothed, and mucronate or shortly awned between the teeth.

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

Cones72 from 5 to 15 cm. long, ovate or oblong-ovate, symmetrical, deciduous and leaving often a few basal scales on the branch; apophyses lustrous, rufous-brown, tumid, the umbo somewhat salient and minutely mucronate.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell