Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sharp, pointed part or organ, especially a sharp terminal point, as of a leaf or shell.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tip; a spine or spine-like process; a mucronate part or organ; a sharp tip or point.
- n. Specifically.
- n. In entomology, an angular projection on the margin or surface of a hard part, as on the thighs or the tips of the elytra; an angular process shorter than a spine
- n. In botany, a short and abrupt point of a leaf or other organ.
Wiktionary
- n. botany, zoology A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot. & Zoöl.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
- Latin mūcrō, mūcrōn-, sharp point. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mesosternal cavity: in Elateridae, the opening into which the prosternal spine or mucro is fitted.”
“The _second glume_ is hyaline, about one and half times as long as the first, oblong elliptic, minutely 2-lobed at the apex, with a minute mucro between, 1-nerved with a scabrid keel.”
“The _fourth glume_ has no mucro or awn and has three stamens.”
“Page 301: with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly”
“The _fourth glume_ is ovate or oblong, rugulose, chartaceous, apex with a distinct mucro concealed in the second and third glumes; _palea_ same as the glume in texture, etc.”
“The other _glumes_ are as in sessile spikelets, but the fourth glume has no awn and may have a mucro.”
“Catholicis uero nihil in differentia constituentibus ipsamque formam ut est esse ponentibus neque aliud esse quam est ipsum quod est opinantibus recte repetitio de eodem quam enumeratio diuersi uidetur esse cum dicitur "deus pater deus filius deus spiritus sanctus atque haec trinitas unus deus," uelut "ensis atque mucro unus gladius," uelut "sol sol sol unus sol.”
“Ergo in numero quo numeramus repetitio unitatum facit pluralitatem; in rerum uero numero non facit pluralitatem unitatum repetitio, uel si de eodem dicam "gladius unus mucro unus ensis unus.”
“Non uero ita dicitur "pater ac filius et spiritus sanctus" quasi multiuocum quiddam; nam mucro et ensis et ipse est et idem, pater uero ac filius et spiritus sanctus idem equidem est, non uero ipse.”
“Potest enim unus tot uocabulis gladius agnosci; haec enim unitatum iteratio potius est non numeratio, uelut si ita dicamus "ensis mucro gladius," repetitio quaedam est eiusdem non numeratio diuersorum, uelut si dicam "sol sol sol," non tres soles effecerim, sed de uno totiens praedicauerim.”
Lists
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Finer Points
Objects like needles and spines whose tips are drawn to a fine point.
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conglomeration
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rememberers
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