mucro

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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.

Cones from 4 to 8 cm. long, subsessile, symmetrical; apophyses lustrous, tawny yellow, transversely carinate, the keel strongly convex, the mucro of the umbo more or less persistent.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Prosternal spine: the curved mucro in Elateridae which extends backward into a meso-sternal cavity: the cone or tubercle between fore-legs in some Orthoptera.

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

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 fourth glume has no mucro or awn and has three stamens.

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