Fastigiate Definition

fă-stĭjē-ĭt
adjective
Having a narrow, spirelike shape, as certain kinds of trees.
Webster's New World
Having erect, clustered, almost parallel branches, as in the Lombardy poplar.
American Heritage

(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.
Wiktionary
noun
(horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
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Other Word Forms of Fastigiate

Noun

Singular:
fastigiate
Plural:
fastigiates

Origin of Fastigiate

  • Medieval Latin fastīgiātus high from Latin fastīgium apex, height

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

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