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Webster 1913 Edition


Penicillate

Penˊi-cil′late

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
pénicillé
. See
Penicil
.]
(Biol.)
Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel’s-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

Definition 2024


penicillate

penicillate

English

Adjective

penicillate (comparative more penicillate, superlative most penicillate)

  1. (botany, zoology) Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs.

Latin

Adjective

pēnicillāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of pēnicillātus