acclinate

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English

Adjective

acclinate (not comparable)

  1. Having an upward slope.
    • 1903, Elliott Coues, Key to North American birds, page 1069:
      Profile of bill oval; of upper mandible narrowly oval; culmen gently convex, declinate, tomial edge more convex, acclinate, meeting at an obtuse tip;
    • 1954 August 10, Herman E-. Freund, “US 2685959 A: Slug-trimming knife fob line casting”, in U.S. Patents:
      However, surface I9 is interrupted by an acclinate Y cam surface 2 extending the length of the knife and into the path of the slug travel approximately .005, after which the normal clearance angle is resumed.
    • 1964, Alma L., Harold N. Moldenke, Phytologia - Volume 11, page 58:
      5-fid, pilose, the middle segment larger, broader, and 3-toothed, the pubescence longer and acclinate above, the venation hispid beneath;

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Latin

Verb

acclīnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of acclīnō