In botany, appearing as if cut off at the tip; ending in a transverse line; as a truncate leaf.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Cut off; cut short; maimed. A truncated cone is one whose vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to its base.
2. Appearing as if cut off; plane; having no edge; as a mineral substance.
1. Cut off; cut short; maimed.
2. Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
3. Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
Shortness Roget’s Thesaurus §201
N. shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation|, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer
V. be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten
Adj. short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary
Adv. shortly, in short
Amorphism Roget’s Thesaurus §241
N. amorphism, # informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder) 59, fluid
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