a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.]
† 1. Uncertain, doubtful. Obs.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 86. Planets amicall, benevolous … as also ancipitous, and indifferent to both.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 263. But which is the true Turbith, is yet ancipitous.
2. Bot. = ANCIPITAL.
a. 1859. Worcester cites Brande.
1866. Treas. Bot., 62/1. Ancipitous, two-edged, as the stem of an Iris.
1882. Baker, in Jrnl. Bot., No. 231. 70. Weinmannia Lucens, n. sp.—A large tree, with branchlets ancipitous and obscurely pilose towards the tip, terete and glabrous lower down.
