fastigiate
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Is fastigiate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (botany) Erect and parallel.Examples: "The branches of this species are fastigiate."
2. (botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branchesExamples: "This is a fastigiate variety."
3. (palynology) Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.Examples: "The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate."
4. (obsolete) Tapering to a pointExamples: "We ascended the top of that noted hill, called Roseberry, or Ounsberry Topping, the top whereof is fastigiate, like a sugar-loaf, and serves for a sea-mark […]"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.Examples: "An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates."
Definition source: Wiktionary