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acéré [2 records]

Record 1 2005-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Needleshaped and rigid; as in the leaves of heaths and pines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Dans le domaine de la botanique : [...] Les Aloès (Aloe), [...] sont connus pour leurs feuilles charnues au bord garni d'épines acérées. (Plantefol, Cours de botanique et de biologie végétale, tome 2, 1931, p. 312).

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Handwriting Analysis and Cryptography
DEF

... Terminating in an edge or point.

CONT

In this writing the strokes are not sharp, but shaded, giving the impression that the writer has been using a brush.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Graphologie et cryptographie
CONT

L'écriture acérée se manifeste par une décharge en pointe aiguë terminant la finale; on trouve également des acérations dans certains signes libres: les barres de t par exemple.

Spanish

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