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mutic

mutic adjective: having no pointed process or awn; awnless.

Adjective

mutic (comparative more mutic, superlative most mutic)

  1. (dated) Having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
    • Pollen masses applied to the dilated tops of the corpuscles of the stigma, solitary, or composed of 4 confluent ones. Stigma almost mutic.1875, John Claudius Loudon, Trees and Shrubs
  2. (dated) Lacking certain defensive structures, such as spines or claws.
    • Tibiae frequently mutic and very distinctly more slender toward its apex.1922, Burle Jackson Jones, The Wing Veins of Insects, volume 1, page 202

Forms of mutic

comparativemore mutic
superlativemost mutic

Questions about mutic

What does mutic mean?
Mutic means having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
What part of speech is mutic?
Mutic is an adjective.

Words near mutic in the dictionary

  1. Muths
  2. muthua
  3. muti
  4. muti murder
  5. muti murders
  6. mutic
  7. muticous
  8. mutie
  9. muties
  10. mutilate
  11. mutilated

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