Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cultrate: specifically applied, in zoology, to a tapering or elongate part or organ when it is bounded by three sides meeting in angles, one of the sides being shorter than the other two, so that the section everywhere is an acute-angled triangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, zoology Shaped like a
pruning knife ;cultrate .
Etymologies
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Latin culter, cultri, knife + -form.
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