a. Shaped like a wedge, cuneiform; Bot. and Zool. = CUNEATE.
1788. J. White, Jrnl. Voy. N. S. Wales (1790), 143. The tail [of this bird] is long and wedge-shaped.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 843. Leaves wedge-shaped.
1837. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 24/2. The rafters to be of wood … and the section to be wedge-shaped.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., i. (1858), 10. If very much wider at the point than at any other part, they [leaves] are cuneate or wedge-shaped.
1867. Schele de Vere, Studies in English, 10. The wedge-shaped inscriptions of Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes.
1893. Tuckey, trans. Hatschek’s Amphioxus, 90. Its cells alter their form while changing to high and sharply pointed wedge-shaped cells.
