lanceolate

Any such artefact.

Adjective

  1. Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
  2. Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
    • The stone tools in these levels include Still Bay points, beautifully shaped thin lanceolate spear points, flaked on both sides. - 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 127:

Origin

From Latin lanceolatus.

Forms

more lanceolate most lanceolate lanceolated

Derived

lanceolately oblanceolate semilanceolate sublanceolate

Noun

  1. Any such artefact.

Forms

lanceolates lanceolated