mucronate

[ myoo-kroh-nit, -neyt ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.

mucronate

/ -ˌneɪt; ˈmjuːkrəʊnɪt /

adjective

1. terminating in a sharp point

Derived Forms

• ˌmucroˈnation, noun

Other Words From

• mucro·nation noun
• sub·mucro·nate adjective
• sub·mucro·nated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mucronate¹

1770–80; < New Latin, Latin mūcrōnātus pointed, equivalent to mūcrōn- (stem of mūcrō ) point, edge + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of mucronate¹

C18: from Latin mūcrōnātus pointed, from mucro

Example Sentences

Lower glumes persistent, membranaceous, folded-carinate, subtruncate, mucronate or short-awned; flowering glume hyaline, shorter, truncate.

From Project Gutenberg

Flowers 4–6, all but one neutral; the one or two lower consisting of empty awned glumes, and the one or two uppermost of empty awnless glumes; the perfect flower intermediate, its glume membranaceous, awned or mucronate below the apex and densely ciliate toward the base, 3-nerved.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaves linear to oblong-lanceolate; heads many, crowded; scales close, obtuse or the uppermost mucronate; achene smooth.—Low grounds, Ohio and Ky. to Dak., and southward.

From Project Gutenberg

Sparsely hairy or nearly smooth; leaves varying from oblong with a somewhat heart-shaped base to linear, mucronate or emarginate; peduncles 1–7-flowered; bracts shorter than the pedicels; sepals pointed, glabrous or nearly so; corolla white; filaments hairy; styles united at base.

From Project Gutenberg

Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks,

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