Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having erect, clustered, almost parallel branches, as in the Lombardy poplar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pointed; rising up to a point; narrowed to the top, as a sloping roof; sloping upward to a summit, point, or edge.
- Specifically—2. In botany, having the branches parallel and erect, as in the Lombardy poplar.
- 3. In zoology, tapering regularly to a more or less acute apex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Narrowing towards the top.
- adjective (Bot.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
- adjective (Zoöl.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Erect and parallel
- adjective botany, horticulture Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
- adjective palynology Characterized by a
fastigium , a cavity separating the intexine from thesexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain. - adjective obsolete Tapering to a point
- noun horticulture A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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More recently interest has centred on the fastigiate form (ssp. cupressiformis).
Chapter 10 1996
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More recently interest has centred on the fastigiate form (ssp. cupressiformis).
Chapter 13 1990
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= -- The leaves partake more or less of the altered direction of the axis, as in fastigiate elms, but this is not universally the case, for though the stem is bent downwards the leaves may be placed in the opposite direction; thus in some specimens of
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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-- In this variety the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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The fastigiate trees and shrubs are a counterpart of the weeping forms.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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It is often called the pyramidal or fastigiate poplar.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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_Taxus_ has a fastigiate form which is much valued because of its ascending branches and pyramidal habit.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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They are ordinarily called pyramidal or fastigiate forms, and as far as their history goes, they arise suddenly in large sowings of the normal species.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Both weeping and fastigiate characters are therefore to be regarded as steps in a negative direction, and it is highly important that even such marked departures occur without transitions or intermediate forms.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
fbharjo commented on the word fastigiate
fastigiate parallel to peaks: many summoned to summits: related to fastidious: how Pop(u)lar
January 16, 2007