The fourth glume has no mucro or awn and has three stamens.
The fourth glume is ovate or oblong, rugulose, chartaceous, apex with a distinct mucro concealed in the second and third glumes; palea same as the glume in texture, etc.
The penultimate tarsal joint in the posterior legs is dilated internally, and terminates in a mucro in one sex of Anoplognathus Dytiscoides of Mr. W.
In the pupa of Hesperia Proteus the mucro is truncate at the apex; in that of Bombyx imperatoria it is long, and terminates in two diverging points.
In Sphodrus leucopththalmus, one of the beetles called black dors, in one sex the same trochanter terminates in a long mucro or spine[851], and in the other it is rounded at the apex.
The leaves of the Mahonias are evergreen, and pinnate; and the leaflets instead of being fringed with fine hairs, are broadly serrated, the points being tipped by a sharp prickle or mucro (see a in fig.
The leaves are deciduous, and they are ovate, slightly hairy, and terminate in a mucro or stiff point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mucro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: auger; bit; drill; needle; point; prick; prickle; sting; tip
