Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
ancipitous - In zoology and botany, two-edged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
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- adjective botany Two-edged instead of round; said of certain flattened stems, such as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
Etymologies
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Latin anceps.
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Two-edged.
June 4, 2008