cuneate

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The sixth glume is very small, cuneate, awned Distribution._--In the districts forming the Coromandel Coast and also Gangetic plains and Ceylon 37.

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  1. adjective Botany Wedge-shaped. Used especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly triangular.

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  1. Latin cuneātus, past participle of cuneāre, to make wedge-shaped, from cuneus, wedge.
 

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/ˈkjunikejt, ejtɛd/
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