cuspidate

American  

[kuhs-pi-deyt] / ˈkʌs pɪˌdeɪt /

Also cuspidated

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps.

2. furnished with or ending in a sharp and stiff point or cusp.

   cuspidate leaves; a cuspidate tooth.

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cuspidate British  

/ ˈkʌspɪdəl, ˈkʌspɪˌdeɪt /

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps

2. (esp of leaves) narrowing to a point

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Other Word Forms

• multicuspidate adjective
• multicuspidated adjective
• noncuspidate adjective
• noncuspidated adjective

Etymology

Origin of cuspidate

1685–95; < New Latin cuspidātus, equivalent to Latin cuspid- ( see cuspid) + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

At a F.ounders dinner, the seating algorithm placed me next to Emerson Spartz, a 27-year-old with the saucer eyes and cuspidate chin of a cartoon fawn.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2020

Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one.

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 Gray, Asa

The first glume is the shortest, ovate, acuminate, aristate or cuspidate, hyaline, glabrous and 3-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The sporidia are in one row, spindle-shaped, straight or slightly curved, rough, hyaline, uniseptic, cuspidate, pointed at the ends, 30–38�6–8�.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Has the sterile segment thicker and cuspidate, the stipe slender and the secondary veins forming a fine network within the meshes of the principal ones.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry