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cuspidate

[kuhs-pi-deyt] / ˈkʌs pɪˌdeɪt /


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At a F.ounders dinner, the seating algorithm placed me next to Emerson Spartz, a 27-year-old with the saucer eyes and cuspidate chin of a cartoon fawn.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2020

The sporidia are in one row, spindle-shaped, straight or slightly curved, rough, hyaline, uniseptic, cuspidate, pointed at the ends, 30–38�6–8�.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The civets have no less than forty, and the grinders, instead of having cutting scissor-like edges, are cuspidate, or crowned with tubercles.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The fourth glume is smooth, shining, broadly oblong, faintly 5-nerved, apex rounded or cuspidate with a few cilia; paleate with a single bisexual flower; palea is similar to the glume in structure.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The fourth glume is chartaceous, shining, smooth ovate-oblong, apex cuspidate, with a few hairs on the edges at the apex, faintly 5-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.




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