mucronate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of mucronate
1770–80; < New Latin, Latin mūcrōnātus pointed, equivalent to mūcrōn- (stem of mūcrō ) point, edge + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Sepals 5, scarcely concave, indistinctly mucronate on the back, greenish.
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 � to � in. long, mostly cylindric, straight, rigid, mucronate, crowded, and of a beautiful glaucous-green color.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
P. dark, with mucronate dark pointed warts; g. running down stem in lines. spissa, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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