obtruncate

From Latin obtruncatus, past participle of obtruncare.

obtruncate (third-person singular simple present obtruncates, present participle obtruncating, simple past and past participle obtruncated)

1. (archaic) To truncate or lop off.

   obtruncated petals

   • 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Chapter 1, Consular Experiences”, in Our Old Home:

     Rustic chairs and benches are scattered about, some of them ponderously fashioned out of the stumps of obtruncated trees, and others more artfully made with intertwining branches, or perhaps an imitation of such frail handiwork in iron.

• obtruncation

• “obtruncate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Betancourt

obtruncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of obtruncātus