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Webster 1913 Edition

Aristate

A-ris′tate

,

Adj.

[L.

aristatus

, fr.

arista

. See

.]

1.

(Bot.)

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.

Gray.

2.

(Zool.)

Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.