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acuminate

[ adjective uh-kyoo-muh-nit, -neyt; verb uh-kyoo-muh-neyt ]

adjective

  1. Botany, Zoology. pointed; tapering to a point.


verb (used with object)

acuminated, acuminating.
  1. to make sharp or keen.

acuminate

adjective

  1. narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to make pointed or sharp
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 补藢肠耻尘颈藞苍补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补路肠耻顎卪颈路苍补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
  • 蝉耻产顎卆路肠耻顎僲颈路苍补迟别 adjective
  • sub顎叢孤烦Τ茴卪颈路苍补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of acuminate1

1595鈥1605; < Latin 补肠奴尘颈苍腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 补肠奴尘颈苍腻谤别 ), equivalent to 补肠奴尘颈苍- (stem of 补肠奴尘别苍 ) acumen + -腻迟耻蝉 -ate 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of acuminate1

C17: from Latin 补肠奴尘颈苍腻谤别 to sharpen; see acumen
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Example Sentences

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Another species in crisis is the acuminate crayfish, which is unique to Montgomery and Prince George鈥檚 counties, experts said, and found largely in the Anacostia watershed.

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Dale鈥檚 team has focused on altering Cavendish plants by inserting a gene from the wild banana Musa acuminate malaccensis that confers resistance to TR4.

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A series of fortunate events brought me to a floor somewhere in the mid-twenties of London鈥檚 most acuminate skyscraper, the 72-storey, 306-metre Shard.

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Shell cylindrical, polished, spire conic acuminated, very short; outer lip simple, inner lip thickened, tumid, columella with numerous slender plaits, aperture at the base truncatedly emarginate.

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Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one.

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