acuminate
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Another species in crisis is the acuminate crayfish, which is unique to Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, experts said, and found largely in the Anacostia watershed.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
A series of fortunate events brought me to a floor somewhere in the mid-twenties of London’s most acuminate skyscraper, the 72-storey, 306-metre Shard.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one.
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 Asa Gray
Larger; leaves long-lanceolate from a cordate clasping base and acuminate, wavy, 3–4½´ long; peduncles thickened upward.—Same range as the species, and extending west to the Pacific.
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 Asa Gray
Valves placed rather distant from each other; carina extremely narrow, with the upper part of nearly the same width throughout; terga with the lower part much acuminated; body of animal finely villose.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The carina and terga are generally most acuminated where they are smallest and least perfectly calcified; and consequently, in this same state, the valves stand furthest apart.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Filamentary Appendages, situated beneath the basal articulation of the first cirrus, on the posterior edge of the usual enlargement; acuminated, about two thirds of the length of the shorter ramus of the first cirrus.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Carina equalling the terga in length, and about three fourths of the length of the scuta; neither the upper nor lower point much acuminated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Cuspidate: prickly pointed; ending in a sharp point; with an acuminated point ending in a bristle.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
