Fastigiate

//fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.

    "An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Erect and parallel.

    "The branches of this species are fastigiate."

  2. 2
    Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches

    "This is a fastigiate variety."

  3. 3
    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. 4
    Tapering to a point obsolete

    "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 […]"

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

Synonyms

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erect

Example

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"The branches of this species are fastigiate."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From New Latin fastīgiātus (“peaked”) (from fastīgium), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Etymology 2

From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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