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Definition of Acuminate

1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point.

2. Verb. Make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a 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

1. Tapering gradually to a protracted point, used to descibe a leaf that tapers abruptly to a sharp point. (12 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acuminate

acuition acuity aculea aculeacin A acylase aculeate aculeated aculei aculeiform aculeolate aculeous

aculeus acultural aculturally acumen acumens acuminate (current term) acuminate leaf acuminate papular syphilid acuminated acuminates

acuminating acumination acuminations acuminite acuminites acuminose acuminous acuology acupoint acupoints

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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