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- adjective botany
Tapering to a characteristically long point at itsapex .
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Leaves simple, alternate, 2-6 inches long, smooth, dark green and shining above, pale or glaucous beneath and somewhat pubescent when young; outline lanceolate, glandular-serrate; apex long-acuminate; tapering to an acute or obtuse base; leafstalk short, glandular at the top; stipules half-cordate when present, soon falling.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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