The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ancipital \An*cip"i*tal\, Ancipitous \An*cip"i*tous\, a. [L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head.] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
Wiktionary
a. (context botany English) Two-edged instead of round; said of certain flattened stems, such as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
Usage examples of "ancipital".
After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.
Matrassyl, and the courts and passages of the Ottassol palace were guarded by human and ancipital sentries.
Their customs were separate from those of either mankind or the ancipital kind.
If this son of Freyr had arrived from otherwhere, then it followed that he came from Freyr, whence, in ancipital eyes, all evil came.
The ceiling was so low that its beams were scarred by tracks of ancipital horn points - possibly a deliberate device to emphasize the fact that the Phagorian Guard were never dehorned.
He considered that the streams of lubricious thought which occupied the minds of men and women at court - and his own mind, despite applications of god and rod - were absent from ancipital harneys.
Because of this lack of shame in what to humans was an act more secret than prayer, the ancipital race was a symbol of lust.
From forwards, a well-muffled observer could make out the jolly boat ahead with the ancipital rowers straining as they pulled the warship out of harbour.
A small human hut was to be seen next to - and little to be distinguished from - an ancipital hut.
Pannoval stepped up the drumble against the ancipital species living on its lands.
Radado formed the western end of a great ancipital migratory route which stretched across the whole of Campannlat, the ultima Thule to which the creatures came in the summer of every Great Year, to go about their unfathomable rituals, or simply to squat motionless, staring across the Cadmer Straits towards Hespagorat, towards a destination unknown to other life forms.
I have knowledge in my possession which, when I lay it before the authorities of Pannoval, will start a Holy War against the ancipital kind throughout all Campannlat.
Although ecclesiastical history seeks to hide the fact, the All-Powerful once closely resembled an ancipital in appearance.
Princess Simoda Tal, in this very palace, by the thrust of an ancipital horn.
The females of the ancipital species have a one-day flow of menses from the uterus as a prelude to the oestral cycle, when they go into rut.