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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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
Both this and the obtuse-angled arch are, taken exclusively, difficult to be distinguished from those of an earlier period.
From The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
Show them an equal-legged right-angled triangle, an equal-legged acute-angled triangle, and an equal-legged obtuse-angled triangle, and this discrimination will be obvious.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
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
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
