fastigiate
English
A fastigiate Mediterranean cypress
Etymology
From Latin fastigiatus (“peaked”), from fastigium (“peak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæˈstɪdʒ.i.ɪt/
Adjective
fastigiate (comparative more fastigiate, superlative most fastigiate)
- (botany) Erect and parallel
- The branches of this species are fastigiate.
- (botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
- This is a fastigiate variety.
- (palynology) Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.
- The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate.
- (obsolete) Tapering to a point
- 1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray, 1846 Ray Society ed. edition, page 148:
- 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 […]
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Roseberry Topping, a fastigiate hill
Derived terms
- fastigiated
- fastigiation
Noun
fastigiate (plural fastigiates)
- (horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
- 1971, Anne Scott-James and Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth, 2004 ed. edition, →ISBN, page 23:
- An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.
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Italian
Adjective
fastigiate
- feminine plural of fastigiato