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Definition of Acuminate
1. Verb. Make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point.
2. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point.
Definition of Acuminate
1. a. Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
2. v. t. To render sharp or keen.
3. v. i. To end in, or come to, a sharp point.
Definition of Acuminate
1. Adjective. Tapering to a point; pointed. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany mycology) Tapering to a long point at its apex. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To render sharp or keen; to sharpen. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To end in or come to a sharp point. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acuminate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Medical Definition of Acuminate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acuminate
Literary usage of Acuminate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"The majority of the pustules are acuminate or conical in shape and reddish in
color, with infiltrated bases. Occasionally, a few or all of the lesions may ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Shrub, about 2 ft. high, with the branches red-puberulent or glabrous: lys.
about 3 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate- crenate, ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... pubescent at length scabrous above, pubescent along the veins beneath, the
4-6 paire of acute or acuminate lobes often with reflexed tips; petioles 2-3 ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... sepals oblong- lanceolate acuminate green, petals narrowly linear, lip white
mettled with yellow-brown, side lobes narrow, disk with 8 crisped ridges, ..."
5. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Monoecious: plants irregularly bipinnate: stem-leaves large, lanceolate-acuminate,
cris- pate; borders revolute, undulate: capsule short-pedicelled, erect, ..."
6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"segments narrowly acuminate : style long and stigmas exserted : capsule acute :
seeds (about 2 lines long), usually dark brown, in few many-flowered heads ..."
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