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Definition of Acuminated
1. acuminate [v] - See also: acuminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acuminated
Literary usage of Acuminated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"Small shrub, armed with straight thorns : leaves pinnate, opposite : leaflets
oblong, acuminated at both ends, entire • petioles unarmed : panicles terminal ..."
2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1856)
"Fore wings nearly straight in front, hardly acuminated, almost straight and
moderately oblique along the exterior border; interior border slightly concave ..."
3. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... very convex behind, the apex acuminated, regularly and rather faintly
punctate-striate, the interst,ces coriaceous, the alternate ones with a ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1846)
"Thirdly,—the employment, for the said purpose, of hollow cylinders of carbon,
either plain or acuminated, in combination with hollow cones of platinum, ..."
5. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain: Or Coloured Figures and by James Sowerby (1829)
"Ovate, acuminated, with a sharp carina wound about the spire. RATHER more than
twice as long as wide, smooth ; the last whorl flattened upon the sides, ..."
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