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