spicate

[ spahy-keyt ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. having spikes, as a plant.
2. arranged in spikes, as flowers.
3. in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.

spicate

/ ˈspaɪkeɪt /

adjective

1. botany having, arranged in, or relating to spikes

   a spicate inflorescence

Word History and Origins

Origin of spicate¹

1660–70; < Latin spīcātus, equivalent to spīc ( a ) spica + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of spicate¹

C17: from Latin spīcātus having spikes, from spīca a point

Example Sentences

Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-dicious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.

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Flowers perfect, pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and thyrsoid-spicate.

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Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.

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Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.

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In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.

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