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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

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

  • ²¹ËŒ³¦³Ü³¾¾±Ëˆ²Ô²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²¹Â·³¦³Üm¾±Â·²Ô²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
  • ²õ³Ü²úa·³¦³Üm¾±Â·²Ô²¹³Ù±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of acuminate1

1595–1605; < Latin ²¹³¦Å«³¾¾±²ÔÄå³Ù³Ü²õ (past participle of ²¹³¦Å«³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð ), equivalent to ²¹³¦Å«³¾¾±²Ô- (stem of ²¹³¦Å«³¾±ð²Ô ) acumen + -Äå³Ù³Ü²õ -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of acuminate1

C17: from Latin ²¹³¦Å«³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð 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’s counties, experts said, and found largely in the Anacostia watershed.

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Dale’s 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’s 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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