mucronate

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Flower mostly hairy at base, the glume mucronate or awned.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Flower very short-stalked or sessile, the glume and palet usually minutely bearded at base, herbaceous, deciduous with the enclosed grain, often equal, the glume 3-nerved, mucronate or awned at the apex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Sepals 5, scarcely concave, indistinctly mucronate on the back, greenish.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Aristate, Awn-pointed, and Bristle-pointed, are terms used when this mucronate point is extended into a longer bristle-form or slender appendage.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa