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• The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.From the entry lacerate
• A chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.From the entry couché
• I didn’t know it yet, but an apex predator was closing in.2025 October 15, Virginia Giuffre, “‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the…. From the entry apex predator
• And marijuana is not a Schedule I any more than a hedgehog is an apex predator.2017 April 2, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner…. From the entry apex predator
• The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry showrunner
• The slide mark begins just before the apex, essentially tangenting off the turn into the dirt.2003 October 7, Daniel Bannon, “I don't like Oregon (long)”, in alt.motorcycle.sportbike (Usenet). From the entry tangent off
• The subcostal vein is very short, club-shapedly widened at the apex.2002, Entomological Revue, page 220. From the entry shapedly
• Setae on the apex of the galea are in four well-separated rows.1984, Quentin Wheeler, Meredith Blackwell, editors, Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. From the entry galeal
• Subulitaceans have spindle- or awl- shaped shells, commonly slender and pointed at the apex of the spire.1982, Ida Thompson, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils, page 421. From the entry subulitacean
• Ostiolar peritreme elevated, scalpeliform, apex ending abruptly near middle of metapleuron.1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of…. From the entry scalpeliform
• Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of…. From the entry xyphus
• The shell is moderately large, elongately conical, with an elevated spire and an obtuse apex.1949, Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum [India]: Natural history section. From the entry elongately
• Tibiae frequently mutic and very distinctly more slender toward its apex.1922, Burle Jackson Jones, The Wing Veins of Insects, volume 1, page 202. From the entry mutic
• The basing of a genus upon size and pertusate apex seems insufficient.1921, Charles E. Fairman, The fungi of our common nuts and pits, page 102. From the entry pertusate
• The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex.1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf (in English)…. From the entry axil
• Most deadly apex predators have a certain ferocity to them that doesn’t scream “friend”—think lions, wolves and crocodiles.2024 June 6, Carin Leong, Allison Parshall, “‘If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?’ A Beary Scientific Investigation”, in Jeanna Bryner…. From the entry friend-shaped
• Conidiogenous loci grouped at conidiogenous cell apex, semidenticulate, slightly pigmented.2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian…. From the entry semidenticulate
• At the junction with the main corridor was a single downlighter which dropped a cone of light onto the apex.2003, Robert Wilson, The Big Killing. From the entry downlighter
• These told us that we get a wonderful throughdraft in summer and buoyant air escaping through the apex of the roof.2003, Andrew Scott, Dimensions of Sustainability, page 95. From the entry throughdraft
• Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663. From the entry cocculinellid
• Sharks are not unpredictable; for the most part, they do exactly what an apex predator is expected to do.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry unpredictable
• Bracts apparently at the apex of the pedicels, calathiform, c. 3 mm in diameter, the cavity c. 2 mm deep.1966, J. Lanjouw, P. F. Baron Van Heerdt, “Quiinaceae”, in A. Pulle, editor, Flora of Suriname, volume III, part I: Dyalypetalae, Leiden…. From the entry calathiform
• Hemelytral membranes small, not reaching apex of abdomen; costal margin of embolium rather evenly arcuate, hardly ampliate toward base.1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of…. From the entry embolium
• From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.1964, Emile S. Demian, The Anatomy of the Alimentary System of Marisa Cornuarietis (L.), page 39. From the entry inframedian
• Abnormal leaves more oblong in outline, contracted toward apex in a proboscoid point bearing numerous fusiform, septate gemmae.1939, Edwin Bunting Bartram, Mosses of the Philippines, page 94. From the entry proboscoid
• On the counter is a hounskull with aventail (a visored bascinet with mail tippet) with a small plume on the apex.1933, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. From the entry hounskull
• Pommel bilobed, overlaid with four acanthus leaves, and provided with small button-shaped eminences at tips of lobes and at apex.1929, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of European Daggers. From the entry pommel
• Some programmers have been rumored to hook themselves up to alcohol-filled IV drips in hopes of hovering at the curve's apex for an extended time.2021 June 1, Kate Julian, “America Has a Drinking Problem”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry Ballmer Peak
• In the Paragiina, the proximal region of the glossa is elongated, and the paraglossae are long and reach the bifid apex of the glossa.2019, Harald W. Krenn, Insect Mouthparts: Form, Function, Development and Performance, page 452. From the entry glossa
• You suggest that he try a later apex, with a correspondingly slower speed at the apex, so that the track-out line is straighter.2013, Richmond Shreve, Instructor Candidate Manual. From the entry trackout
• But it is Varney, with his endless ambition, ruthless cruelty, guileless charm, and heartless romance, who truly stands at the apex of modern vampdom.2013, Dave Thompson, If You Like True Blood...Here Are Over 200 Films, TV Shows, And Other Oddities That You Will Love, page 26. From the entry vampdom

Meaning of apex

1. noun The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
2. noun The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
3. noun The lowest part of the human heart.

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How do you use apex in a sentence?

Apex is used as a noun. For example: “Drone cameras show that his car reached the apex first.”

What is a short sentence with apex?

“the apex of civilization”

What does apex mean?

Apex means the highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.