What does "fastigiate" mean?

A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.

What is a synonym for "fastigiate"?

Common synonyms include: assume vertical form, columnar, erect, grow erect, rise upright, upright.

Pronounced //fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət//.

/fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət/ adj, noun

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Noun

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
Erect and parallel.
"The branches of this species are fastigiate."
2
Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
"This is a fastigiate variety."
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
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
having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) wordnet

"The branches of this species are fastigiate."

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).