obtuse angle
noun
an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
obtuse-angled
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a word derived from
obtuse angle.
Example Sentences
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A. An obtuse-angled scalene triangle, which has one obtuse angle.
From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Samuel Wilderspin
The fruit is oblong, obtuse-angled, somewhat resembling a short, thick cucumber, with a thin, smooth, green rind, filled with a pleasant, acid juice.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
Bardon, the highest hill of Charnwood, which is near by, rises nine hundred feet, an obtuse-angled triangular summit that can be seen for miles away: not far from the forest are several famous places.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
His business taking him deep into the county among the farms, he was always in walking trim, with an umbrella crooked over one arm, his other hand grasping the obtuse-angled handle of a ground-ash stick.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
If these two are placed with shortest sides together, we have another form, the obtuse-angled triangle, and this gives us all the five forms of the seventh gift.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
