describe
verb (used with object)
to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of.
undescribed
-
a word derived from
describe.
Example Sentences
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"We determined that the bones included an undescribed species, the size of a small goose," he says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Some fossils are thought to represent previously undescribed species, including two additional pterosaur skulls and two small raptor dinosaurs.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
About three-quarters of undescribed plants are threatened with extinction.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024
Curiously, the DNA appears to belong to a previously undescribed bacterium, which is most closely related to “a strange bacteria that’s got a really small genome,” called Mycoplasma, he says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 1, 2023
You are also made aware that the skunk has been abroad, that reynard is somewhere to windward, and by an undescribed, generally unrecognized, pungency in the air that a gray squirrel lives in your neighborhood.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
