fastigiate
IPA: fˈæstɪdʒʌt
noun
- (horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
adjective
- (botany) Erect and parallel
- (botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
- (palynology) Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.
- (obsolete) Tapering to a point
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Examples of "fastigiate" in Sentences
- The growth is fastigiate, with a very narrow crown.
- It is often called the pyramidal or fastigiate poplar.
- The fastigiate trees and shrubs are a counterpart of the weeping forms.
- There are also fastigiate, pendulous, and golden leaf forms in cultivation.
- The tree has small, fastigiate lateral branches forming a narrow, oval head.
- More recently interest has centred on the fastigiate form (ssp. cupressiformis).
- _Taxus_ has a fastigiate form which is much valued because of its ascending branches and pyramidal habit.
- They are ordinarily called pyramidal or fastigiate forms, and as far as their history goes, they arise suddenly in large sowings of the normal species.
- -- In this variety the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak.
- The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the
- Both weeping and fastigiate characters are therefore to be regarded as steps in a negative direction, and it is highly important that even such marked departures occur without transitions or intermediate forms.
- = -- The leaves partake more or less of the altered direction of the axis, as in fastigiate elms, but this is not universally the case, for though the stem is bent downwards the leaves may be placed in the opposite direction; thus in some specimens of
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