mucronate

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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

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

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Glumes membranaceous, compressed-keeled, obscurely 3-nerved, barely acute, or the flowering glume often mucronate or bristle-pointed; the empty ones moderately unequal, nearly as long as the spikelet.

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

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

Involucral bracts mucronate, appressed Blazing Star, Liatris cylindracea. 99a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan