nonacuminate

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adjective

Not acuminate.

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Meanings

adjectivenonacuminate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot acuminate.

    snout rounded and nonacuminate in dorsal and lateral view;

    1971, Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum, page 38
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    The distal end is nonacuminate, and the general outline shows considerable variation in different specimens.

    1898, Rufus M. Bagg, Collected papers, page 77

    On account of the white scales of the under surface, larger specimens of this species might be confounded with true H. grandifolia, except for the simpler venation and the obtuse or, at least, nonacuminate segments.

    1908, William Ralph Maxon, Studies of tropical American ferns, page 88

Origin

From non- + acuminate.

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