Definition of Fastigiate

1. Adjective. Having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column).

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Erect, Upright, Vertical

Definition of Fastigiate

1. a. Narrowing towards the top.

Definition of Fastigiate

1. Adjective. (botany) Erect and parallel ¹

2. Adjective. (botany gardening) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches ¹

3. Adjective. (palynology) Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain. ¹

4. Adjective. (obsolete) Tapering to a point ¹

5. Noun. (gardening) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fastigiate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fastigiate

faster-than-light
fasters
fastest
fasteth
fastgrowing
fasti
fastidiosities
fastidiosity
fastidious
fastidious organism
fastidiously
fastidiousness
fastidium cibi
fastigatum
fastigial nucleus
fastigiated
fastigiates
fastigiobulbar fibres
fastigiobulbar tract
fastigiospinal fibres
fastigium
fastigiums
fastilarian
fasting
fasting blood glucose
fasting glucose
fasting hypoglycaemia
fastings
fastish

Literary usage of Fastigiate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"T. & G. Shrub 2 to 4 ft. high, with balsamic sticky herbage and stout woody branches; branchlets more or less fastigiate, leafy below, nearly naked above ..."

2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... acuminate at each end, distinctly petioled, membranaceous, coarsely serrate ; corymb fastigiate, somewhat paniculate; scales of the involucre ..."

3. Trees & Shrubs for English Plantations: A Selection and Description of the by Augustus Mongredien (1870)
"For instance, we may take the following divisions, viz.— LIST 25. BRANCHES fastigiate.—Several trees have their branches growing upright and close to the ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"... densely pinnated with long, simple or forked, fastigiate, erect pinnate resembling those of S. scoparia. 42. ..."

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