Definitions for spicate

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spicate spi·cate

Spelling: [spahy-keyt]

IPA: /ˈspaɪ keɪt/

Spicate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in spicate (aceipst).

Definitions for spicate

adjective

1. having spikes, as a plant.
2. arranged in spikes, as flowers.
3. in the form of a spike, as in inflorescence.

Origin of spicate

1660-70; Latin spīcātus, equivalent to spīc(a) spica + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for spicate

Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.

Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.

Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-dicious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.

In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.