spicate
Americanadjective
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having spikes, as a plant.
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arranged in spikes, as flowers.
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in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of spicate
1660–70; < Latin spīcātus, equivalent to spīc ( a ) spica + -ātus -ate 1
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Antheridia in the ventricose bases of spicate leaves.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-diœcious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Anthers of the longer stamens glandular-tipped; flowers showy, from depressed-capitate becoming spicate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Antheridia in the base of inflated spicate leaves.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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