spicate
/spahy-keyt/US // ˈspaɪ keɪt //UK // (ˈspaɪkeɪt) //
孢子,孢子粉,孢粉
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Botany.
- : having spikes, as a plant.
- : arranged in spikes, as flowers.
- : in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inspiked
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Examples
Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-dicious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.
Flowers perfect, pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and thyrsoid-spicate.
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
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