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spicate

[ spahy-keyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Botany.

spicate

/ ˈspaɪkeɪt /

Origin of spicate¹

1660–70; < Latin spīcātus, equivalent to spīc ( a ) spica + -ātus -ate ¹

Origin of spicate¹

C17: from Latin spīcātus having spikes, from spīca a point

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.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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