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spicately

spicately adverb: having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.

Adverb

spicately (comparative more spicately, superlative most spicately)

  1. Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
    • Leaves dilated, verticillate or alternate flowers; racemose or spicately racemose.1839, Robert Sweet, F.L.S., edited by George Don, F.L.S., SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS; OR, A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE PLANTS INDIGENOUS OR CULTIVATED IN THE GARDENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO...
    • The arrangement of individual inflorescence units is highly variable in Nivenia and Aristea but the ancestral condition is most likely racemose (Goldblatt, 1993a,b) with lateral inflorescences borne on short lateral branches (sessile lateral branches, thus spicately arranged, are considered...2004 January, Goldblatt, Peter, Le Thomas, Annick, Suárez-Cervera, Maria, “Phylogeny of the Afro-Madagascan Aristea (Iridaceae) revisited in the light of new data on pollen morphology.”, in Botanical...

Forms of spicately

comparativemore spicately
superlativemost spicately

Origin of spicately

From spicate + -ly.

Questions about spicately

What does spicately mean?
Spicately means having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
What part of speech is spicately?
Spicately is an adverb.

Words near spicately in the dictionary

  1. Spicanese
  2. spicas
  3. spicataside
  4. spicate
  5. spicated
  6. spicately
  7. spicatoside
  8. spicatum
  9. spicc.
  10. spiccato
  11. spiccatos

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