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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Truncated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Truncating

[L.

truncatus

, p. p. of

truncare

to cut off, mutilate, fr.

truncus

maimed, mutilated, cut short. See

To cut off; to lop; to maim.

Adj.

[L.

truncatus

, p. p. ]

Appearing as if cut off at the tip;

as, a

truncate

leaf or feather

Verb.

[L. trunco, to cut off.] To cut off; to lop; to maim.

Adj.

In botany, appearing as if cut off at the tip; ending in a transverse line; as a truncate leaf.