spicate
having spikes, as a plant.
arranged in spikes, as flowers.
in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.
Origin of spicate
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Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-dicious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.
Flowers perfect, pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and thyrsoid-spicate.
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
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 | William GriffithIn Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
Vegetable Teratology | Maxwell T. Masters
British Dictionary definitions for spicate
/ (ˈspaɪkeɪt) /
botany having, arranged in, or relating to spikes: a spicate inflorescence
Origin of spicate
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