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
Achenes cylindrical, ribbed; pappus double, the outer of minute scale-like bristles, the inner of copious capillary bristles.—Perennial herbs, with leafy stems, alternate and acuminate or very acute leaves and mostly purple flowers.
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
Leaves.—Narrowly lanceolate; the outer ones two to four inches long; acuminate.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Leaves.—Rhomboidal; acuminate; netted-veined; five-nerved; two to six inches long.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Spire slightly produced, acuminated; the whorls with a central indented line.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
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
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
Cells deeply immersed; mouths in some entire and unarmed; in others, with two acuminated conical lips; immediately beneath the apex of the posterior lip a small sessile avicularium.
Furunculus, or boil, is an acute, deep-seated, inflammatory, circumscribed, rounded or more or less acuminated, firm, painful formation, usually terminating in central suppuration.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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