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Another word for cuspidate

adjective

Having an end that tapers to a point:

acicular, aciculate, aciculated, acuminate, acute, cuspate, cuspated, cuspidated, mucronate, pointed, pointy, sharp. See sharp

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A re-entrant branch not cutting itself may be everywhere convex, and it is then properly said to be an oval; but the term oval may be used more generally for any re-entrant branch not cutting itself; and we may thus speak of a once indented, twice indented oval, &c., or even of a cuspidate oval.

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