In a wedge-shaped manner; in the manner of something shaped like a wedge.
Formed from 'cuneate' plus the adverbial suffix '-ly,' creating an adverb describing how something occurs or is done in wedge-form.
Adverbs like 'cuneately' are rarely used because we usually don't need to describe actions in wedge-shaped ways—but botanists and anatomists treasure such precision!
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