Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Three-pointed; ending in three points: as, a tricuspidate glume; tricuspidate teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Three-pointed; ending in three points.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Three-pointed; ending in three
points .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having three cusps or points (especially a molar tooth)
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Examples
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It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The second is not inserted obliquely like its correspondent in the upper jaw, its axis is in a line with that of its neighbours; tricuspidate, the middle lobe being the highest.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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