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Definition of Apiculate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip.
Definition of Apiculate
1. a. Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.
Definition of Apiculate
1. Adjective. (botany of a leaf) Having a short, sharply pointed tip ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apiculate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Apiculate
1. Terminating in a short, sharp, flexible point. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apiculate
Literary usage of Apiculate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"-arge, convex-conic, stoutly apiculate. — Pacif. E. Rep. iv. 187, t. ...
much constricted below the broad mouth when dry ; operculum convex, apiculate ..."
2. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"slighty contracted under the broad orifice; lid hemispherical, conical-apiculate;
teeth short, orange at base; segments hyaline, whitish and granulose ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... not apiculate. Style* with hooked arms. Fruit T>5 in. diam., echinate.—Wight
represents the filamente as wholly connate and the anthers as erect, ..."
4. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... Linn., which is pubescent, and has anthers not overtopped by an apiculate
connective. The Japanese species, »S*. ..."
5. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... now rounded, now apiculate at the base, bearing a brown small ligulate glándula.
We have not seen such a narrow ..."
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