fastigiate

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A fastigiate Mediterranean cypress

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

fastigiate (comparative more fastigiate, superlative most fastigiate)

(botany) Erect and parallel

The branches of this species are fastigiate.
(botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches

This is a fastigiate variety.
(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.
(obsolete) Tapering to a point
- 1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray^[1], edition 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

fastigiate (plural fastigiates)

(horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
- 1971, Anne Scott-James and Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth^[2], edition 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.

fastigiate f.