Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the form of a wedge.

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Examples

  • The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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