Cuneate

Word CUNEATE
Character 7
Hyphenation cu ne ate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cuneate"

What do we mean by cuneate?

Wedge-shaped. Used especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly triangular. adjective

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.

Wedge-shaped. 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. adjective

(of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base adjective

Wedge-shaped.

Wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.

Having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.

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The word "cuneate" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although they do that indirectly, all nociceptors synapse first in the dorsal horn and then the second order neurons cross and go to the thalamus different from low threshold mechano-sensitive neurons which go on up to the gracile or cuneate nuclei, but still not directly to the thalamus. ❋ Unknown (2005)

LEAVES: Alternate with short petiole hardly 3 mm long, usually elliptic with a rounded tip, base cuneate or slightly cordate, blade leathery, light green above, silvery grey and softly hairy underneath. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The _fifth_, _sixth_ and _seventh glumes_ are obovate-cuneate, 7 - to 9-nerved, paleate, flower-bearing and 3-lobed, the side lobes are acuminate and the central lobe is bifid and dorsally awned; palea is ovate-acute, 2-nerved and ciliolate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The lesion is one of the left occipital cortex in the cuneate lobe and the neighbourhood of the calcarine fissure. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

In 66, although the wound was a glancing one, and did not perforate, it was so near the median line, and accompanied by such severe damage to the bone, that a symmetrical lesion of the cuneate and precuneate lobules of both right and left sides is to be inferred. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

The portion of brain destroyed was probably a considerable portion of the cuneate and precuneate lobules of both sides, as well as ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

The _third glume_ is oblong-obovate, hyaline, thin, paleate with three yellow _anthers_ and two oblong-cuneate _lodicules_; _palea_ is narrow, oblong, obtuse. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The first glume is large, broadly obovate or obcordate, cuneate, villous with brown hairs, 7 - to 9-nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

In shape they are mostly of some form referable to the cuneate form. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The other species which yield buchu are _B. serratifolia_, having linear-lanceolate sharply serrulate leaves, and _B. betulina_, the leaves of which are cuneate-obovate, with denticulate margins. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _first glume_ in the awnless spikelets is coriaceous, oblong, cuneate, very sparsely hairy or glabrous, shorter than the second glume, 7-nerved, 5-toothed at the apex, two teeth being broader and shorter and three sharper and longer. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The track through the brain no doubt involved a considerable extent of the outer aspect of the right occipital lobe and the cuneate lobule. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

The fifth, sixth and the seventh are cuneate, obovate and ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

_Lodicules_ are two, large, cuneate at base and strongly nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _spikelets_ are large about 1/4 inch long cuneate and bifarious. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Lodicules are cuneate or quadrate and two in number. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is shorter than the second glume, narrow, oblong, cuneate, 3-toothed with marginal hairs and tufts of hairs at about the middle at the back, 7-nerved all nerves running straight. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

_Lodicules_ are two, fleshy and cuneate or subquadrate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

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