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Acute
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Tapering to a pointed a pointed apex with more or less straight sides
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Cuneate
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Wedge-shaped. Used especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly
triangular. (leaf shape)
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Sagittate
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Arrowhead-shaped, with the basal lobes directed downward (leaf shape)
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Hastate
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Arrowhead-shaped, but with the basal lobes turned
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Cordate
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Having a heart-shaped outline
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Deltroid
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A simple leaf shaped like a capital delta
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Acumicate
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Tapering gradually to a sharp point, as the tips of certain leaves
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Acute
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Tapering to a pointed apex with more than or less straight sides
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Obtuse
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Blunt or rounded at the apex; with the sides coming together at the apex at an angle greater than 90 degrees
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Cuspidate
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Tipped with a short, sharp, abrupt point
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Muspidate
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Tipped with a short, sharp, abrupt point
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Truncate
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With the apex squared at the end as if cut off
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Retuse
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With a shallow notch in a round or blunt apex
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Emarginate
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With a notch at the apex
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Entire
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Not toothed, notched or divied, as the continuous margins of some leaves
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