Crossword-Solution: RETUSE 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Retuse a. Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse
leaf.

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RETUSE anagram ERESTU, EURTES, SUERTE, SURETE, TEREUS

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HAVING rounded apex with shallow notch (of leaf) 1 answer
Having a slightly notched, rounded apex 1 answer
Rounded and notched, as a leaf 1 answer
having a rounded apex and a central depression 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETUSE (5)

Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.
Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart John McDouall Stuart 2004
The _third glume_ is pale, nearly equal to the second glume with a longitudinal depression at the back, less hairy than the second glume, 3-nerved (rarely 5-nerved also); _palea_ is present, and it is hyaline, shorter than the glume, truncate or shallowly retuse, usually barren but occasionally with three stamens.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar 2007
The _fourth glume_ is slightly shorter and narrower than the third, ovate, acute, obtuse or toothed, ciliate, nerveless or faintly 1-nerved, paleate; _palea_ is about half as long as the glume, quadrate, toothed or retuse, nerveless, glabrous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar 2007
The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7- to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar 2007
Leaves often retuse; calyx-lobes obtuse in the bud; petals small or minute; style shorter, 3--4-cleft; seeds larger, sharply tuberculate; otherwise like the last.--Ark.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Asa Gray 2012
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–1994).