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Definition of Cuspidated

1. Adjective. Having cusps or points.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuspidated

Literary usage of Cuspidated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"It is a general opinion that cuspidated lightnings, or lightnings of the first class, are those only by which terrestrial objects are stricken. ..."

2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1845)
"That line, thus projected, will resemble one branch of a cuspidated conchoid. The line formed by the first projection, as has been explained, resembles the ..."

3. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1845)
"That line, thus projected, will resemble one branch of a cuspidated conchoid. The line formed by the first projection, as has been explained, resembles the ..."

4. A Treatise on Algebra, in Practice and Theory, with Notes and Illustrations by John Bonnycastle (1813)
"... the third cuspidated ; the fourth pointed; and the fifth and sixth ... the fifth cuspidated (which is Neil's parabola) ; and the sixth pure. ..."

5. Annual Report by Smithsonian Institution (1856)
"cuspidated lightning. Weld, Me., June 7,1850.—At 6 o'clock pm we experienced a heavy thunder-storm. When the storm had passed a little to the eastward ..."

6. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1850)
"In the cuspidated head of the southernmost light is a small oval, exhibiting the emblem of St. Luke ; and as there is the indent of an oval in a similar ..."

7. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"The slightly cuspidated cutting edge of the Premolar, examined from the side, is curved, the posterior end being the highest point of the same ; viewed from ..."

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