spicose

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English

Etymology

From Latin spica (“a spike or ear”).

Adjective

spicose (comparative more spicose, superlative most spicose)

  1. (botany) Having spikes or ears like those of corn.
    a spicose umbel

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spicose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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