| The trocar is a sharp-pointed instrument incased in a cannula or sheath, which leaves the sharp point of the trocar free. |
| The teeth are sharp-pointed, uncrowded, and individually less specialized than in any other American weasel. |
| The quaking aspen may be told by its reddish-brown twigs, narrow sharp-pointed buds, and by its small finely toothed leaves. |
| From the cut of her sharp-pointed hood, and the long diamond pattern of her white deer-skin leggings, they supposed she came from Ellesmere Land. |
| A polished bodkin of white petrified shell, with sharp-pointed ends, thrust through a hole in the partition of his nostrils, extended five inches across his face. |
| Each disc flower is surrounded by a sharp-pointed, chaffy bract and consists of a basal inferior ovary, two pappus scales, and a tubular corolla. |
