mutic

English

Adjective

mutic (comparative more mutic, superlative most mutic)

1. (botany, dated) Having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
   • 1875, John Claudius Loudon, Trees and Shrubs:

     Pollen masses applied to the dilated tops of the corpuscles of the stigma, solitary, or composed of 4 confluent ones. Stigma almost mutic.

2. (zoology, dated) Lacking certain defensive structures, such as spines or claws.
   • 1922, Burle Jackson Jones, The Wing Veins of Insects, volume 1, page 202:

     Tibiae frequently mutic and very distinctly more slender toward its apex.