Meaning of FASTIGIATE
| Pronunciation: | | fa'stijeeit
|
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | [adj] (botany) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | erect, upright, vertical |
| |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Fas*tig"i*ate\, Fastigiated \Fas*tig"i*a`ted\, a.
[L. fastigium gable end, top, height, summit.]
1. Narrowing towards the top.
2. (Bot.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches
of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
3. (Zo["o]l.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle
with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
|
| |
|
|