Synonyms for cuspidate
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Basal breadth of all six the same (three times as large as one pore); form, three-sided prismatic, with cuspidate distal end.
Cuspidate, tipped with a sharp and rigid point; as in Fig. 140.
The serrations tend to be more nearly crenulate than cuspidate.
Leaves much smaller, less oblique at the base, finely and regularly crenate, acuminate rather than cuspidate.
Cuspidate: prickly pointed; ending in a sharp point; with an acuminated point ending in a bristle.
Polar spines three-sided prismatic, cuspidate, about as long as the axis of the shell.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR CUSPIDATE
cuspate
adjectivepointedcuspidated
adjectivepointedgnawing
adjectivesharpknifelike
adjectivesharp- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
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