Definitions for mucronate

mucronate mu·cro·nate

Spelling: [myoo-kroh-nit, -neyt]
IPA: /ˈmyu kroʊ nɪt, -ˌneɪt/

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

You can make 710 anagrams from letters in mucronate (acemnortu).

Definitions for mucronate

adjective

  1. having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.

Origin of mucronate

1770-80; New Latin, Latin mūcrōnātus pointed, equivalent to mūcrōn- (stem of mūcrō) point, edge + -ātus -ate1

Examples for mucronate

In zone view, the median line deeply bisects the longitudinal axis, ending in a mucronate central nodule.

If the tip of the carpel is indented, it is said to be emarginate; if long and pointed, mucronate.

Anthers oblong-linear or arrow-shaped, mucronate, inserted in the throat.

Occasionally the mucronate distal end appears to be the result of intentional termination of serrating at the distal end.

The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.

In Sesleria the apex is rounded with a short, sharp, prickle-like median projection (mucronate).

The leaves are alternate, with six pairs of oblong-linear, obtuse, mucronate leaflets.

Corniform: like the horn of an ox: a long, mucronate or pointed process.

Conelets subterminal, or lateral and subterminal, mucronate.

The lower part of the body suddenly contracts to form a short, narrow, mucronate, pointed tail.

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