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acuminate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | acumen |
Examples of acuminate
acuminate
Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate, acuminate or spine-tipped, 20-70 mm long and 5-30 mm wide.
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Usually they are serrate, rounded at base, acute or acuminate.
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Its 30-140 mm long leaves are ovate, acuminate or acute, pale green in colour and usually bristly when young.
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The leaves are broadly ovate, cordate at the base, unlobed to shallowly 3-lobed, dentate, acute to acuminate, and 50-80 mm long.
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The large leaves, which are broadly ovate, usually peltate, rounded at the base, crenate, acute to acuminate, dark green above and pale green beneath, are clustered at the ends of the branches.
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- (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point
- Make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point
- In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms (botanical Latin terms in brackets): * Acicular (acicularis): Slender and pointed, needle-like * Acuminate (acuminata): Tapering to a long point * Aristate (aristata): Ending in a stiff, bristle-like point * Bipinnate (bipinnata): ...
- To render sharp or keen; to sharpen; To end in or come to a sharp point; Tapering to a point; pointed; Tapering to a long point at its apex
- (acumination) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point
- Having a long-tapered, sharp tip, the sides concave. (see acute, awl-like)
- [with leaves and bracts]with the tip, or occassionaly the base tapering gradually to a point, usually with somewhat concave sides
- Drawn out into a definite tip at the apex.
- Refers to leaves that taper to a sharp point at the apex
