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
Leaflets.—Seven to nine; glossy; ovate to oblong-lanceolate; one and one half to four inches long; acuminate; sinuately dentate, with numerous spinose teeth; the lowest pair distant from the stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Leaves.—Mostly alternate; petioled; deltoid-ovate to ovate-lanceolate; acuminate; three to seven inches long; three-ribbed at base.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Mandibles, with two or three teeth, and the inferior angle acuminated; the lateral bristles unusually strong, so as to give the main teeth the appearance of being pectinated.
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
This band or stripe varies in width and proportionate length and position in different species; it is slightly elevated, and marked with larger, or small circular discoid, or acuminated eminences.
Mandibles, with three teeth, of which the first is distant from the second; inferior angle not much acuminated, pectinated on both edges.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Upper and lower points rounded; in rare varieties, both ends are sharply acuminated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
