cusped

American  

[kuhspt] / kʌspt /

Also cuspate

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps; cusplike.

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Other Word Forms

• uncusped adjective

Etymology

Origin of cusped

First recorded in 1815–25; cusp + -ed ³

Example Sentences

A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019

The tail, for instance, which in most modern fruit-bats is rudimentary, with only three or four vertebrae, in the fossil has eight complete vertebrae; while the teeth of the 247 extinct form are distinctly cusped.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

The pedestal is carved out on its sides into niches, having cusped tracery heads. 

From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Eade, Peter

Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

The teeth are more sharply cusped, and the lower sectorial wants the inner tubercle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various