Meaning of fastigiate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Erect and parallel.
2. Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
3. Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.
4. Tapering to a point
   obsolete

Examples

“The branches of this species are fastigiate.”

“This is a fastigiate variety.”

“The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate.”

“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 […]”

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