Definitions for cuspidate

cuspidate cus·pi·date

Spelling: [kuhs-pi-deyt or kuhs-pi-dey-tid]
IPA: /ˈkʌs pɪˌdeɪt or ˈkʌs pɪˌdeɪ tɪd/

Cuspidate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 671 anagrams from letters in cuspidate (acdeipstu).

Definitions for cuspidate

adjective

  1. having a cusp or cusps.
  2. furnished with or ending in a sharp and stiff point or cusp:

Origin of cuspidate

1685-95; New Latin cuspidātus, equivalent to Latin cuspid- (see cuspid) + -ātus -ate1

Examples for cuspidate

Basal breadth of all six the same (three times as large as one pore); form, three-sided prismatic, with cuspidate distal end.

Leaves much smaller, less oblique at the base, finely and regularly crenate, acuminate rather than cuspidate.

Polar spines three-sided prismatic, cuspidate, about as long as the axis of the shell.

The serrations tend to be more nearly crenulate than cuspidate.

cuspidate, tipped with a sharp and rigid point; as in Fig. 140.

cuspidate: prickly pointed; ending in a sharp point; with an acuminated point ending in a bristle.

Word Value for cuspidate
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