ancipital

English

Etymology

From Latin anceps.

Adjective

ancipital (not comparable)

1. (botany) Two-edged instead of round; said of certain flattened stems, such as those of bluegrass, and rarely also of leaves.
2. Double; doubtful or ambiguous.
   • 1988, Thomas Fleiner-Gerster, Modern Constitution, page 192:

     This ancipital character of a constitution raises the problem of its adaptability or flexibility. As noted above, many constitutions provide more or less difficult conditions for their amendment, […]

Synonyms

• ancipitous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ancipital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• subancipital