fastigiate meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

fastigiate

adj

/fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət/

Etymology From New Latin fastīgiātus (“peaked”) (from fastīgium), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Erect and parallel.

The branches of this species are fastigiate.

Agriculture, Biology, Botany, Business, Horticulture, Lifestyle, Natural sciences Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches

This is a fastigiate variety.

Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Palynology, Physical sciences 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

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 […]1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray, Ray Society, published 1846, page 148:

Derived terms: fastigiated, fastigiation, subfastigiate

fastigiate

noun

Etymology From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Agriculture, Business, Horticulture, Lifestyle A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.

An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.1971, Anne Scott-James, Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth, published 2004, →ISBN, page 23: