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Webster 1913 Edition

Ancipitous

{

An-cip′i-tal

,

An-cip′i-tous

, }

Adj.

[L.

anceps

,

ancipitis

, two-headed, double;

an-

for

amb-

on both sides +

caput

head.]

(Bot.)

Two-edged instead of round; – said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.