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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the shape of an awl.
  • In botany), slender and tapering toward the extremity from a broadish base, as a leaf; subulate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Shaped like an awl.
  • adjective (Nat. Hist.) Subulate. See Subulate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective shaped like an awl

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