Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, minutely mucronate; having a little point, as the carpels of Sida mucronulata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having, or tipped with, a small
point or points.
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Examples
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Amongst the bushes here, a HAKEA, with simple filiform mucronulate leaves without flower, occurred, loaded with oblong hard galls resembling dry plums.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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_Flowering glumes_ are broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronulate, punctulate, with the lateral nerves equidistant from the margins and the median nerve, and produced far up towards the median nerve; palea is broad, shorter than its glume, deciduous with it, and with winged and scabrid keels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Amongst the bushes here, a HAKEA, with simple filiform mucronulate leaves without flower, occurred, loaded with oblong hard galls resembling dry plums.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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