English-Thai Dictionary
fastigiate
ADJ ยาว เรียว เรียว แหลม fastigiated yao-riao
fastigiated
A ที่ เป็น รูป แหลม ยาว เรียว ที่ตั้ง ตรง และ ยาว ขนาน fastigiate
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FASTIGIATE, FASTIGIATED
a.[L. fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak. ] 1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Peduncles are fastigiate, when they elevate the fructifications in a bunch, so as to be equally high, or when they form an even surface at the top.
2. Roofed; narrowed to the top.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
FASTIGIATE; FASTIGIATED
Fas *tig "i *ate, Fas *tig "i *a `ted, a. Etym: [L. fastigium gable end, top, height, summit. ]
1. Narrowing towards the top.
2. (Bot. )
Defn: Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
New American Oxford Dictionary
fastigiate
fas tig i ate |fəˈstijēət fəˈstɪʤiət | ▶adjective Botany (of a tree or shrub ) having the branches sloping upward more or less parallel to the main stem. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin fastigium ‘tapering point, gable ’ + -ate 2 .
Oxford Dictionary
fastigiate
fastigiate |faˈstɪdʒɪət, -ɪeɪt | ▶adjective Botany (of a tree or shrub ) having the branches more or less parallel to the main stem. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin fastigium ‘tapering point, gable ’ + -ate 2 .
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