Adjective : cuspidate leaves; a cuspidate tooth. From Dictionary.com.
Has the sterile segment thicker and cuspidate, the stipe slender and the secondary veins forming. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The first glume is coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, convex more or less, marginally winged above the middle, truncate or two-cuspidate at the apex and awnless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The civets have no less than forty, and the grinders, instead of having cutting scissor-like edges, are cuspidate, or crowned with tubercles. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
And there was a brass rail with cuspidors near to it, if you wanted to cuspidate it was handy right there, and there's no place to hawk and cuspidate in these here soda-water dives. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter Two: Beginning the Old Soak's History of the Rum Demon] Reference
The incisors are somewhat larger than, but the canines and premolars approximate to, those of the felines; the crown of the incisors is cuspidate, and the premolars increase gradually in size, with the exception of the fourth in the upper jaw, the carnassial, which is treble the size of the one next to it. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
There are four premolars and two molars on each side of each jaw, which, with the normal number of canines and incisors, give forty teeth in all; the canines are moderate in size, and sharp; the premolars conical, and the molars cuspidate, which gives them a grinding surface instead of the trenchant character of the cats; the tongue is rough, the papillae being directed backwards; the pupils are circular. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
The bear shambles along with an awkward gait, placing the entire sole of his foot on the ground; he has rough dingy fur, a snout like a pig's, and is chiefly a vegetarian -- and in respect to this last peculiarity his dentition is modified considerably: the incisors are large, tri-cuspidate; the canines somewhat smaller than in the restricted carnivora; these are followed by three small teeth, which usually fall out at an early period, then comes a permanent premolar of considerable size, succeeded by two molars in the upper, and three in the under jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Third glume cuspidate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
"'Well, I never knew a cuspidate to come so hard. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
The first glume is the shortest, ovate, acuminate, aristate or cuspidate, hyaline, glabrous and. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
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