fastigiate

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[edit] English

A fastigiate Mediterranean cypress

[edit] Etymology

From Latin fastigiatus (peaked), from fastigium (peak).

[edit] Adjective

fastigiate (comparative more fastigiate, superlative most fastigiate)

Positive
fastigiate

Comparative
more fastigiate

Superlative
most fastigiate

  1. (botany) Erect and parallel
    The branches of this species are fastigiate.
  2. (botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
    This is a fastigiate variety.
  3. (palynology) 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
    • 1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray[1], 1846 Ray Society ed., page 148:
      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 []
Roseberry Topping, a fastigiate hill

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[edit] Noun

Singular
fastigiate

Plural
fastigiates

fastigiate (plural fastigiates)

  1. (horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
    • 1971, Anne Scott-James and Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth[2], 2004 ed., ISBN 0711224250, page 23:
      An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.
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