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Fastigiate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

FASTIG'IATE ,

Fastigiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Peduncles are fastigiate when they elevate the fructifications in a bunch, so as to be equally high, or when they form an even surface at the top.

2. Roofed; narrowed to the top.

Fastigiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Fastigiated

Fastigiated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Narrowing towards the top.

2. Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

3. United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.