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spicate

[spahy-kayt] / ˈspaɪ keɪt /
ADJECTIVE
spiked
Synonyms
STRONGEST


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Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

Flowers unisexual, racemose, spicate or capitate; calyx becoming fleshy or juicy in fruit.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Heads spicate or racemose, the involucre well imbricated.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray


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