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Definition of Penicillate
1. a. Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.
Definition of Penicillate
1. Adjective. (botany zoology) Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Penicillate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Penicillate
1. Pencil-shaped, tufted like an artist's brush. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penicillate
Literary usage of Penicillate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... which is either naked or penicillate or hirsute, and not rarely bearing a
short conical or flattened appendage. ..."
2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1908)
"Calyx about 12 mm long, 8 mm thick, densely covered with imbricated, appressed,
penicillate-acuminate slightly ciliate 1.2 mm long scales, the lobes 5, ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... glabrous, the two lower penicillate; style-thickening towards the shortly ...
sparingly hispid along the sutures, the two lower ones long penicillate. ..."
4. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"... thick in texture and somewhat hirsute, staminal column glabrous, anthers
sparingly hispid along the sutures, the two lower ones long penicillate. ..."
5. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Pud 1^-2 in. by l in. broad ; style subglabrous, penicillate at the tip. ...
Pod 1J-2 in. by J in.; style flattened, subglabrous, penicillate at the tip. 9. ..."
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