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spicate
[ spahy-keyt ]
adjective
- having spikes, as a plant.
- arranged in spikes, as flowers.
- in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.
spicate
/ ˈspaɪkeɪt /
adjective
- botany having, arranged in, or relating to spikes
a spicate inflorescence
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Origin of spicate1
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Example Sentences
Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-dicious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.
Flowers perfect, pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and thyrsoid-spicate.
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
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