Cuneate

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  • adjective. Wedge-shaped. Used especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly triangular.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wedge-shaped; truncate at one end and tepering to a point at the other: properly applied only to flat bodies, surfaces, or marks: as, a cuneate leaf.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wedge-shaped.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. wedge-shaped.
  • adjective. wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.
  • adjective. having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base
    • Word Usage
    "That on the fasciculus gracilis is named the clava, and is produced by a subjacent nucleus of gray matter, the nucleus gracilis; that on the fasciculus cuneatus is termed the cuneate tubercle, and is likewise caused by a gray nucleus, named the nucleus cuneatus."
    Equivalent
    cuneated  simple  unsubdivided  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wedge-shaped  
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