Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Borne in or forming a spike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the form of a spike; arranged or disposed in spikes.
- In ornithology, spurred; calcarate; spiciferous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the form of a
spike , orear ; arranged in a spike or spikes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or relating to spikes
Etymologies
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Examples
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The exact summits of all the hills are covered with a coarse spicate
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The spikelets are all unisexual, spicate, the male and female spikelets are dissimilar, and are on the same or on different spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Wigand mentions an instance in _Digitalis lutea_, where the upper part of the stem was divided into six or seven racemes; possibly this was a case of fasciation, but such a division of the inflorescence is by no means uncommon in the spicate species of _Veronica_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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