mucroniform
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mūcrō, mūcrōnem (“a sharp point”) + -iform.[1]
Adjective
[edit]mucroniform (not comparable)
- (botany, rare) Having a sharp pointed end or mucro.
- 2002, Jan Kirschner, editor, Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 6. Juncaceae 1: Rostkovia to Luzula, Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, →ISBN, page 6:
- Perennials, densely caespitose; rhizome stout, branched, ascending or short with internodes very abbreviated; stem 15–25 (–33) cm long, c. 1 mm in diam.; cataphylls 3–4 (–5), obtuse, pale brown with blade mucroniform and 0.3–1.5 mm long; cauline leaf usually single; auricles narrow, distinct; sterile shoots usually single-leaved.
References
[edit]- ^ “mucroniform, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
