"Obtusely" Quotes from Famous Books
... also the white-thorn leaf,) as shewn in this sketch, is more rounded, and the leaf is obtusely pointed. The serratures or jags on the edges are not so deep, the surface of the leaf is more uneven, the texture not so delicate, and the colour ... — A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum
... one variety is of a bluish colour. The nut itself differs much in size and shape, being ovate and compressed in filberts, nearly round and of great size in cobs and Spanish nuts, oblong and longitudinally striated in Cosford's, and obtusely four-sided in the ... — The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |