aristate

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English

Etymology

Latin aristatus, from arista. See arista.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈɹɪsteɪt/, /əˈɹɪstət/

Adjective

aristate (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Having a long bristle at its apex.
  2. (botany) Having a pointed, beard-like process, like those of the glumes of wheat; awned[1]
  3. (zoology) Having a slender, sharp, or spiny tip.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Aristate.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

aristāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of aristātus