Dictionary entry

Ancipital

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ An‐cip″i‐tal (�), An‐cip″i‐tous (�), } a. [L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head.] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; — said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.