lanceolate

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The _third glume_ is oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), ciliate on the nerves.

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  1. adjective Tapering from a rounded base toward an apex; lance-shaped: lanceolate leaves.

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  • The third glume is oblong-lanceolate, acute, membranous, 3- to 5-nerved, sparingly hairy in the lower spikelet and densely bearded with soft spreading hairs in the upper spikelet. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The fourth glume is lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, somewhat chartaceous, paleate; palea is like the glume in texture. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The third glume is oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), ciliate on the nerves. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Nodes are glabrous Leaf-blades are broadly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading, flat, or in short-leaved forms, stiff and pungent, 1 to 2 inches long (rarely also 5 inches long), glabrous above and below, ciliate at the margins towards the base, and with a very minutely serrate hyaline margin The inflorescence consists of two to four terminal spikes with a slender, long, hairy or glabrous peduncle. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The second glume is ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, 5-nerved, lateral nerves being marginal and hairy. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
 

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  1. Late Latin lanceolātus, from Latin lanceola, diminutive of Latin lancea, lance; see lance.

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  1. from Late Latin lanceolatus, armed with a little lance or point, from Latin lanceola, a little Iance, from lancea, a lance: see lance.
 

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/ˈlænsəəleɪt/
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