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
Involucre.—Of several series of imbricated, ovate, acuminate scales.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Nearly glabrous; leaves heart-shaped or truncate at the base, coarsely and sharply toothed, acuminate, not lobed; panicle small and loose; style slender; berries of the size of a pea, 1–3-seeded, bluish or 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 Asa Gray
Flowering glumes rounded on the back, many-nerved, acuminate or bristle-pointed; empty glumes very small.
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
Tail-feathers ten, strong, rigid, acuminated; the two middle ones longest.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
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
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
Terga rather broad, with the basal angle not much acuminated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Mandibles, with four large, pointed, equal-sized teeth, with the inferior angle very narrow, acuminated like a single spine.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
