mucro

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Cones not exceeding 7 cm. in length, symmetrical, pendent on slender peduncles, ovate-conic, early deciduous; apophyses sublustrous, nut-brown, tumid at the margins, flat on the surface, the umbo large, the mucro rarely persistent.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The other glumes are as in sessile spikelets, but the fourth glume has no awn and may have a mucro.

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

Page 301: with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly Changed puncticulate to punctulate.

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

Mesosternal cavity: in Elateridae, the opening into which the prosternal spine or mucro is fitted.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Cones from 6 to 12 cm. long, ovate-conic, oblique, serotinous, reflexed; apophyses lustrous tawny yellow, convex, the posterior gradually larger and more prominent than the anterior scales, the umbo flat or depressed, the mucro deciduous.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell