Afastigiate Mediterranean cypress Roseberry Topping, afastigiate hill FromNew Latin fastīgiātus ( “ peaked ” ) (fromfastīgium -ate ( adjective-forming suffix ) .
fastigiate (comparative morefastigiate ,superlative mostfastigiate )
( botany ) The branches of this species arefastigiate .
( botany , horticulture ) This is afastigiate variety.
( palynology ) fastigium , a cavity separating theintexine from thesexine near theendoaperture of acolporate pollen grain.The grains are 3-colporate andfastigiate .
( obsolete ) 1662 John Ray , “Itineraries”, inMemorials of John Ray [1] 1846 , page148 :We ascended the top of that noted hill, called Roseberry, or Ounsberry Topping, the top whereof isfastigiate , like a sugar-loaf, and serves for a sea-mark[ …]
From asubstantivation of the aboveadjective , see-ate ( noun-forming suffix ) .
fastigiate (plural fastigiates
( horticulture ) 1971 Down to Earth [2] 2004 ,→ISBN 23 :An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers andfastigiates .
fastigiate
feminine plural offastigiato 
