accuminateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

accuminate (comparative more accuminate, superlative most accuminate)

1. Tapering to a point.
   • 1897, Columbia University. Dept. of Botany, Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University^[1]:

     In both species the anthers show a shade more color than the petals. The flowers differ further in the sepals, which in Canadeuse are more accuminate, and in the bractlets of the calyx, which are rather larger in flavum.

動詞

accuminate (三人称単数 現在形 accuminates, 現在分詞 accuminating, 過去形および過去分詞形 accuminated)

1. To taper to a point.
   • 1810, The American mineralogical journal^[2], volume 1:

     Sometimes the bevelling planes stretch so far towards the apex of the crystal that the accuminating planes are scarcely visible.

   • 1906, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions^[3], volume 30:

     The merus joints are oblong, shorter than the ischium, with the distal fourths quickly accuminating to obtuse median apices, beneath which the carpal joints are articulated, only a portion of them being exposed.

アナグラム

• cacuminate