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Example sentences for "acuminate"

Lexicographically close words:
actus; acuerdo; acuity; aculeate; acumen; acuminated; acupuncture; acus; acushla; acute
  1. LIP with a bilamellate claw and a heart-shaped, acuminate limb, waved at the margin.

  2. LIP shorter than the sepals heart-shaped, with a very acuminate slightly recurved apex, white with dark brown spots and a purplish 2-lobed callus at the base.

  3. Eye, half open, with long acuminate segments, set in a deep and angular basin.

  4. Eye, small and closed, with long acuminate segments, and set in a pretty wide, and deep basin, which is sometimes a little ribbed.

  5. Eye, partially closed with long acuminate segments, and set in a rather deep and angular basin.

  6. Eye, closed, with long acuminate segments, set in a narrow, angular basin.

  7. Eye, small and closed, with long acuminate segments, and set in a narrow, deep, and slightly angular basin.

  8. Eye, small and closed, with long acuminate segments, set in a narrow, deep, and even basin.

  9. Eye, closed, with long acuminate segments, and set in a wide and deep basin.

  10. Eye, small, half open, with acuminate segments, set in a rather shallow and wide basin.

  11. Eye, open, with long, reflexed, acuminate segments, placed in a shallow basin.

  12. Eye, large, and closed with long, broad, acuminate segments, and set in a pretty deep and very angular basin.

  13. Eye, open, with long acuminate segments, deeply set in an angular basin.

  14. The sporangia in the type specimens (Rex) are on moss, borne at the extreme tips of acuminate or aculeate leaves, so that at first sight they appear stipitate.

  15. Sporangia distinct, sessile or stipitate; capillitium of distinct elastic threads, free acuminate at each end, yellow or more rarely reddish or brown; spores generally yellow.

  16. Fruit acuminate and long-pointed, acute at base, 1/4' long and about as long as its pedicel.

  17. Fruit purple; stone with acute ridges; leaves oval or oblong, acute or acuminate at apex.

  18. Leaves oblong to oblong-ovate and acuminate or elliptic and bluntly short-pointed.

  19. The lobes are irregularly roundish-ovate, sinuate, crenate or slightly toothed; the lowest ones occasionally drawn out into an acuminate point an inch long.

  20. They are lanceolate-acuminate in shape, tapering from a broad base to a slender point; in the common form their average breadth at the base is half to three-fourths of an inch, but in var.

  21. It is composed of shining ferruginous-brown thin lanceolate acuminate scales fully an inch in length, and destitute of a thickened midnerve.

  22. At the base they are covered with large ovate-acuminate brown or sometimes dark and shining scales.

  23. The root-stocks of this little fern are creeping, branched and often entangled, and chaffy with narrow lance-acuminate dark-fuscous scales.

  24. The fronds are broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate in outline, usually narrowed a little, or even conspicuously narrowed, at the base, and acute or acuminate at the apex.

  25. Bark below base of lateral branches darkened-triangular in outline; leaves long acuminate and lustrous above; staminate catkins usually solitary.

  26. The form with long acuminate pointed leave which is the common form in our area, is regarded as a variety of Celtis occidentalis.

  27. The lobes are long acuminate and usually entire, sometimes the lower lobe has a small lobe near the base.

  28. Outer and middle bracts erect, not appressed, acuminate into a long slender more or less prickly tip (4-10 dm.

  29. They are both acuminate and globular, and occasionally rest upon a slightly hyperæmic integument.

  30. Broad band around the neck, from which two long-pointed triangles or acuminate figures point downwards; then another simple straight band, and below this a zigzag band.

  31. The geometric figures present an endless variety; but we notice, as is shown by the cuts and plates, that triangles with an elongate acuminate apex and the zigzag are very common in the black-brown decorations.

  32. Bill and nostrils very much as in Motacilla; two of the scapulars as long as the closed wing; first primary acuminate and nearly obsolete, second shorter than the third and fourth, which are the longest; hind claw very long.

  33. Without the acuminate upper portion the breadth of the triangular portion would be about double its length.

  34. The flicker's tail looks and feels very much like that of any other bird except that the shafts are stiffer and the vanes contract to an acuminate tip.

  35. Leaves oblong-ovate to obovate, abruptly acuminate at the apex; marginal teeth not incurved.

  36. Perennial herbs, with leafy stems, alternate and acuminate or very acute leaves and mostly purple flowers.

  37. Flowering glumes rounded on the back, many-nerved, acuminate or bristle-pointed; empty glumes very small.

  38. Caudex much branched; pod glabrous, acuminate or acute, twisted, beaked with a longer distinct style.

  39. Empty glumes persistent, narrow, acuminate, more or less unequal, the longer usually a little shorter than the rather rigid acuminate flowering one.

  40. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or parted; its lobes elongated setaceous-acuminate or aristiform.

  41. Thirteen percent have acuminate distal ends and 87% have acute distal ends.

  42. The distal end is usually sharply acute, but may approach an acuminate type.

  43. Twelve to eighteen lines in diameter; subtended by numerous, ovate-acuminate bracts.

  44. Tail short, even, the shafts very strong, and prolonged into acuminate points.

  45. The long acuminate point is almost an awn.

  46. Apex of palea distinctly pointed, acuminate or mucronate, but not giving rise to a true, long, bristle-like awn.

  47. Palea parchment-like, lanceolate-terete, acuminate and bifid at the apex, rounded on the back and with yellow hairs on the lower part.

  48. The back of the cell is very convex, and has running along the middle of it an elevated crest or keel, which is acuminate in the middle.

  49. The prehensile part of the avicularium itself small, seated in a deep notch below the acuminate summit; lateral area large and well defined.

  50. Vittae strap-shaped, anterior, extending from the level of the mouth to the bottom of the cell, with elevated acuminate papillae or short spines.

  51. Leaves with 5 to 7 serrulate, elliptical, acuminate leaflets, usually smooth, sometimes minutely pubescent beneath; the pubescent petiole flattish toward the base.

  52. It has smooth shoots and branches, ovate-acuminate leaves that are downy beneath, and flowers rose-coloured without and white within.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acuminate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; barbed; bite; bristle; cut; edge; file; grind; horned; horny; peaked; peaky; point; pointed; prick; pronged; sharp; sharpen; spiked; spined; spiny; spur; stick; sting; strap; strop; taper; tapered; tapering; tined; toothed; whet