Definition of Muticous

1. lacking a point [adj]

Medical Definition of Muticous

1. Without a point or pointed process; blunt. Origin: L. Muticus, for mutilus. See Mutilate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muticous

mutessarifs
mutest
mutex
mutexes
muthas
muther
muthmannite
muti
muti murder
muti murders
muticous (current term)
mutilate
mutilated
mutilates
mutilating
mutilating keratoderma
mutilating leprosy
mutilation
mutilations
mutilator
mutilators
mutiliate
mutilin
mutilous
mutinaite

Literary usage of Muticous

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

1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... broader than the ovate and muticous black scale. [C. melanocephala Turcz.(?)]—Mountains; Wyoming and Colorado to California. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Anthers muticous. oblong-sagittate. Ovules .'1 to 10 in eaeh cell. ... ++ Anther-cells equal, parallel and contiguous, muticous : limb of corolla ..."

3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"Flowers clustered at the nodes of the almost leafless branches in terminal panicles. Stamens muticous. Capsule seed-bearing from the base 16. ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... glabrous, the empty scales broad, strongly nerved, manifestly indurated at the thickened curved base, muticous or more commonly short-awned, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"... similar tj the fertile filaments. or 3 lines long, about a line wide, bright green, flat, thick, very obtuse and muticous, ..."

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