Crossword clues for cuneate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuneate \Cu"ne*ate\ (k?"n?-?t), Cuneated \Cu"ne*a`ted\ (-?`tEd), a. [L.cuneatus, fr. cuneus a wege See Coin.] Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context biology English) wedge-shaped. 2 (context botany English) wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base. 3 (context botany English) having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.
WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base [syn: wedge-shaped]
Wikipedia
Cuneate means "wedge-shaped," it can apply to:
- Cuneate leaf, a leaf shape
- Cuneate nucleus, a part of the brainstem
- Cuneate fasciculus, a tract from the spinal cord into the brainstem
Usage examples of "cuneate".
So we signed up as men-at-arms on a Chilite skirmisher to get passage to Cuneate Bay, and spent three days there in Draar Harbor getting provisions.
Videlicet: old, battered, handy Ready Jack with his chipped pommel-stone, and the ghul-skin sheath I bought in Cuneate Bay.
She hatched calm in a cuneate enclosure, licking her finger paging back to the Cs for cunning, past cut-rate, curt, running down from cuneiform and held, abruptly, at cunnilingus.