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Definition of Cultrate
1. a. Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
Definition of Cultrate
1. sharp-edged and pointed [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultrate
Literary usage of Cultrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of Eminent Zoologists: From Aristotle to Linnaeus : with Introductory by William Macgillivray (1834)
"Beak convex, cultrate; nostrils covered by recumbent bristly feathers: 19 ...
Beak cultrate, the tip incurved, not covered with feathers at the base: 6 ..."
2. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"... or cultrate base, the longest measuring 1' or more. Veins anastomosing only
in the disk of the outer portion of the pinna, those of the pinnules free ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Tho vomer of Scopus is sharply cultrate above and rounded below; it reaches beyond
the maxillo-palatino moss. ..."
4. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1828)
"Bill cultrate : tibiae feathered. 10. ANGULI ROS TRES. ... Bill robust,
conic-acuminate, or cultrate, forming a sinus in the front feathers. ..."
5. The British Hemiptera by John William Douglas, John Scott (1865)
"semicircular, convex, base very oblique, a little widened beneath; ? broad-cultrate,
pointed ; 2nd pair, tibia and tarsi brownish, with a darker spot at the ..."
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