runcinate

American  

[ruhn-suh-nit, -neyt] / ˈrʌn sə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

adjective

1. (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.

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runcinate British  

/ -ˌneɪt, ˈrʌnsɪnɪt /

adjective

1. (of a leaf) having a saw-toothed margin with the teeth or lobes pointing backwards

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Etymology

Origin of runcinate

1770–80; < Latin runcinātus (past participle of runcināre to plane), equivalent to runcin ( a ) carpenter's plane + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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runcinate

Leaves all lyrate or runcinate, the upper often with a heart-shaped clasping base; panicle larger; achenes distinctly beaked; otherwise as n. 7.—Rich soil, Penn. to Ill., and southward.

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

C. tectòrum, L. Slender, branching from the base, 1° high; leaves narrow, runcinate; heads small, in a loose panicle; achenes fusiform, the ribs scabrous.—In fields, Lansing, Mich., and on ballast.

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 runcinate; flowers very small, pale yellow; pods awl-shaped, close pressed to the stem, scarcely stalked.—Waste places.

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

Achenes oblong-ovate to fusiform, 4–5-ribbed, the ribs roughened, the apex prolonged into a very slender beak, bearing the copious soft and white capillary pappus.—Perennials or biennials; leaves radical, pinnatifid or runcinate; flowers yellow.

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

See, Miss Esther, look at these runcinate leaves.'

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan