mucronate

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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

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

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

The second glume is twice the size of the first, ovate-oblong, 3-nerved, rarely 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous, shortly mucronate at the acute apex.

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

Leaves � to � in. long, mostly cylindric, straight, rigid, mucronate, crowded, and of a beautiful glaucous-green color.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)