spicate
Americanadjective
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having spikes, as a plant.
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arranged in spikes, as flowers.
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in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of spicate
1660–70; < Latin spīcātus, equivalent to spīc ( a ) spica + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Spikelets spicate, in pairs, the pedicellate sterile or rudimentary; rhachis bearded.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The exact summits of all the hills are covered with a coarse spicate Saccharum.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.
From Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them by Anonymous
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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