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
Example Sentences
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Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.
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 Gray, Asa
More hispid and rough, very leafy; leaves rigid, pinnately parted into 3–7 narrowly linear acute divisions, those subtending the densely spicate flowers similar and crowded; corolla over 1´ long.—Prairies,
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 Gray, Asa
Stems 1° high; glabrous or nearly so; heads ½´ high, rather few, racemose or spicate; outer scales lax, foliaceous; rays purple; leaves linear, entire.—Mo. to Tex., thence to Car. and Ga. § 2.
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 Gray, Asa
Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.
From Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them by Anonymous
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