spicate

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Latin spicatus, past participle of spicare (“to furnish with spikes, or ears”).

Adjective

spicate (comparative more spicate, superlative most spicate)

  1. (botany) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

spīcāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of spīcātus
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