Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rather acute; specifically, in botany, barely acute or verging toward an acute form.
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Examples
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From the main leafstock grow several pairs of stalked pinnæ, with the divisions ovate-oblong, acutish, crenate-serrulate, obliquely cordate or subcordate.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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= -- Buds small, reddish-brown, ovate to oval, acutish, partially hidden by enlarged base of petiole.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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_Q. coccinea_, tips papery and transversely rugulose, obtuse or rounded, or some of them acutish, often lacerate-edged, loose towards the thick and open edge of the cup: acorn small: kernel yellow within and bitter.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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Leaves pinnately compound, alternate; petiole swollen at the base, covering bud of the next season; often with spines in the place of stipules; leaflets 7-21, opposite or scattered, 3/4-1-1/4 inches long, about half as wide, light green; outline ovate or oval-oblong; apex round or obtuse, tipped with a minute point; base truncate, rounded, obtuse or acutish; distinctly short-stalked; stipellate at first.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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