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A fastigiate Mediterranean cypress

From Latin fastigiatus (“peaked”), from fastigium (“peak”).

fastigiate (comparative more fastigiate, superlative most fastigiate)

(botany) Erect and parallel
The branches of this species are fastigiate.
(botany, horticulture) Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches
This is a fastigiate variety.
(palynology) Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain.
The grains are 3-colporate and fastigiate.
(obsolete) Tapering to a point
- 1662, John Ray, “Itineraries”, in Memorials of John Ray‎[1], Ray Society, published 1846, page 148:
  We ascended the top of that noted hill, called Roseberry, or Ounsberry Topping, the top whereof is fastigiate, like a sugar-loaf, and serves for a sea-mark […]

Roseberry Topping, a fastigiate hill

fastigiate (plural fastigiates)

(horticulture) A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.
- 1971, Anne Scott-James, Osbert Lancaster, Down to Earth‎[2], published 2004, →ISBN, page 23:
  An evening spent with a good catalogue or gardening encyclopaedia will reveal an astonishingly wide range of both weepers and fastigiates.

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