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acuminate

[uh-kyoo-muh-nit, -nayt, uh-kyoo-muh-nayt] / əˈkju mə nɪt, -ˌneɪt, əˈkju məˌneɪt /


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sharpen
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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

Perennial, erect, stout and tall, glabrous except the loose axillary panicled racemes; leaves round-ovate, shortly acuminate, truncate or cordate at base; outer sepals broadly winged in fruit.—Occasionally escaped from gardens.

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 narrower, gradually acuminate, finely serrate.—In wet places and along streams, etc.; our most widely distributed and variable species.—S. myricoìdes, Muhl.

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

Tall; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, mostly petiolate; pods 2–4´ long, spreading.—Sparingly naturalized.

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

Palpi not nearly touching each other, pointing towards the adductor: much hollowed out on their inner sides, hence narrow and acuminated, with doubly serrated bristles.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

Verruca, or wart, is a hard or soft, rounded, flat, acuminated or filiform, circumscribed epidermal and papillary growth.

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

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

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


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