different between cuneate vs cunette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cune?tus.

Adjective

cuneate (comparative more cuneate, superlative most cuneate)

1. (biology) wedge-shaped.
2. (botany) wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.
3. (botany) having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.

Usage notes

A deltoid organ is roughly triangular in shape, but may have much less obvious "angles". An obdeltoid one is practically the same, except that the cuneate leaf's angle are better defined. Being cuneate does not prevent being sagittate.

Italian

Adjective

cuneate

1. feminine plural of cuneato

Anagrams

• acuente
• cutanee

Latin

Verb

cune?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cune?

English

Etymology

From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lac?na (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kju??n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kju??n?t/, /ku?-/
• Hyphenation: cu?nette

Noun

cunette (plural cunettes)

1. (military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.

References

Italian

Noun

cunette m

1. plural of cunetta