What does fastigiate mean?
Fastigiate means (botany) Erect and parallel..
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/fæˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ət/ · adjective
(botany) Erect and parallel..
The branches of this species are fastigiate.
This is a fastigiate variety.
The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate.
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 […]
An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.
Use fastigiate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fastigiate means (botany) Erect and parallel..
Common synonyms include erect, upright, vertical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The branches of this species are fastigiate.
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