mutic

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adjective

Having no pointed process or awn; awnless.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivemutic (comparative more mutic, superlative most mutic)

comparative more mutic · superlative most mutic

  1. datedbiologyHaving no pointed process or awn; awnless.

    Pollen masses applied to the dilated tops of the corpuscles of the stigma, solitary, or composed of 4 confluent ones. Stigma almost mutic.

    1875, John Claudius Loudon, Trees and Shrubs
  2. datedbiologyLacking certain defensive structures, such as spines or claws.

    Tibiae frequently mutic and very distinctly more slender toward its apex.

    1922, Burle Jackson Jones, The Wing Veins of Insects, volume 1, page 202
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