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spicated, a. Now rare.|ˈspaɪkeɪtɪd|
[See prec. and -ed1.]
1. Bot. Having the form of a spike.
1661Blount Glossogr., Spicated, eared, or in an ear, as corn is. 1712Phil. Trans. XXVII. 422 The Flowers grow spicated in a loose tuft. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 254 The top of the stalk terminates in a spicated tuft.
2. Furnished with spikelets; bristly.
1702Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1359, I plainly saw that all the bristles on the body of one of them..were..spicated (if I may make a word) or bearded like the Ear on the Seed head of some Grasses. 1742H. Baker Microsc. ii. xxiii. 189 Those Hairs were spicated, or had other little Hairs issuing from their Sides. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery I. 51 The catkins of both are round, spicated balls. 1859Sala Gaslight & D. xxv. 285 This big, barbated, spicated basso, with the beard of a sapeur. |