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fastigiate

/fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət/

fastigiate adjective: erect and parallel.

fastigiate: erect and parallel
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Adjective

fastigiate (comparative more fastigiate, superlative most fastigiate)

  1. Erect and parallel.
    • The branches of this species are fastigiate.
  2. Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
    • This is a fastigiate variety.
  3. Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.
    • The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate.
  4. (obsolete) Tapering to a point
    • We ascended the top of that noted hill, called Roseberry, or Ounsberry Topping, the top whereof is fastigiate, like a sugar-loaf, and serves for a sea-mark […]1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray, Ray Society, published 1846, page 148

Noun

fastigiate (plural fastigiates)

  1. A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
    • An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.1971, Anne Scott-James, Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth, published 2004, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of fastigiate

Adjective
comparativemore fastigiate
superlativemost fastigiate
Noun
pluralfastigiates

Origin of fastigiate

From New Latin fastīgiātus (“peaked”) (from fastīgium), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Words formed from fastigiate

Questions about fastigiate

What does fastigiate mean?
Fastigiate means erect and parallel.
What part of speech is fastigiate?
Fastigiate can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce fastigiate?
Fastigiate is pronounced /fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət/.

Words near fastigiate in the dictionary

  1. fastidiousness
  2. fastidity
  3. fastidium
  4. fastigia
  5. fastigial
  6. fastigiate
  7. fastigiated
  8. fastigiately
  9. fastigiates
  10. fastigiation
  11. fastigiobulbar

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