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Cuspidate

Definition: Cuspidate

Cuspidate

Adjective

1. Having cusps or points.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cuspidate

Synonyms: cuspate (adj), cuspated (adj), cusped (adj), cuspidal (adj), cuspidated (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cuspidate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sharpness

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cuspidate

Etymologies containing "cuspidate": Multicuspidate. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Cuspidate

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Modern Translation: Cuspidate

Language Translations for "cuspidate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

cuspidatus (cuspidal), tilspidset (conicity, cuspidal, taper), spids (peak, point, pointed, spiked, summit, tip). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cuspidatus (cuspidal), getand (dental). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

منتهی به نوک تیز, نوک دار (Headed, Picked, Sharp), شاخدار (Cornuted). (various references)

   

French

  

cuspidé (cuspidal). (various references)

   

German

  

cuspidatus (cuspidal). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μυτερόσ (cuspidal, cuspidated, peaked, piked, pronged, spicate, spiculate, spiky), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang), ο έχων οδοντικό φύμα ή γλωχίνα (cuspidal). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cuspidato (cuspidal). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cuspagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uspidatecay

   

Portuguese

  

cuspidado (cuspidal). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

остроконечный (acuminate, cuspidal, gabled, peaked, peaky, picked, pointy, ridged, ridgy, spiky, spiniform). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuspidado (cuspidal), con fines de cúspide. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sivri uçlu (cusped, cuspidal, pointed, spicular, spiky), dilimli (segmented, sliced). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шпилястий (apiculate, arrowy, beaked, piked, sharp pointed, spired), гострокінцевий (acuminate, cuspidal, peaked, peaky, piked, ridged, ridgy, spiny, spiral, spired), загострений (acuminate, arrow-headed, ogival, piled, pointed, spiky). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cuspidate

Misspellings

"Cuspidate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copydate, cuspidatus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cuspidate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: cuspated, spicated.

-2 letters: aseptic, auspice, cuspate, dauties, depicts, discept, dispute, spicate, teacups, updates.

-3 letters: acutes, adepts, adieus, apices, aspect, audits, cadets, capsid, catsup, caused, cuesta, cupids, cusped, cuspid, cuties, dautie, depict, dicast, ducats, duties, edicts, educts, epacts, pasted, pastie, paused, petsai, pietas, sauced, sauted, scaped, septic, spaced, spicae, spiced, spited, stiped, stupid, suited.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: duplicates.

 

+2 letters: pediculates, supplicated.

 

+3 letters: reduplicates.

 

+4 letters: propaedeutics, sextuplicated.

 

+5 letters: conceptualised, particularised, quadruplicates, reduplications, unpredictables.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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