mucronate
adjective
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
submucronate
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a word derived from
mucronate.
Example Sentences
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Creeping; leaves somewhat rigid, repand, deeply lobed; lobes rounded, submucronate, the lower appressed, the upper convex with incurved apex; perianth ovate, denticulate.
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
