单词 | fastigiation |
释义 | fastigiationn. Chiefly Botany. Originally: the action or process of making something tapered to a point. In later use spec.: the tendency of a plant or part of a plant to grow in an upright narrow manner.Cf. fastigiate adj. 1c. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (Errata) sig. Ss For Fastigation r. Fastigiation. 1896 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Bot. 31 330 It would appear..that the fastigiation is a variation from the normal spreading type. 1991 B. Verdcourt & D. M. Bridson Flora Trop. E. Afr., Rubiaceae III. 824 Narrow velvety leaves in whorls of 3 or sometimes apparently more due to fastigiation on very abbreviated shoots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658 |
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