Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Sharp-edged and pointed; knifelike: cultrate leaves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sharp-edged and pointed; colter-shaped, or shaped like a pruning-knife, as a body that is thick on one edge and acute on the other: as, a cultrate leaf; the beak of a bird is convex and cultrate.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany, zoology Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
Etymologies
- Latin cultratus ("knife-shaped"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin cultrātus, from culter, cultr-, knife; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A lot of -- especially here in southern California in Los Angeles and urban centers have difficulties where English is not their first language and there is another language other than English spoken at home and so therefore they feel more comfortable communicating in another language other than English and to be able to deal in mainstream society, I think effects, has a great effect on the quality of life and services and their general well being and sort of disagree and want to delve in deeper about the Filipino's ability to cultrate and assimilate into society.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cultrate’.
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Leaves
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More Adjectival Arcana
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Logolepsy
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cutting words
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Shape Words
shapely adjectives and descriptors
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Knife-shaped
Words meaning knife-shaped
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