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spicate

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


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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 Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa

Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.

From Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them by Anonymous

In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.