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fastigiated

fastigiated is the alternative form of fastigiate.

Meaning of fastigiate

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

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Forms of fastigiated

comparativemore fastigiated
superlativemost fastigiated

Questions about fastigiated

What is fastigiated the alternative form of?
Fastigiated is the alternative form of fastigiate.

Words near fastigiated in the dictionary

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

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