Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spicately

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spi-cate-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.

Example Sentences

"Leaves dilated, verticillate or alternate flowers; racemose or spicately racemose."
"The arrangement of individual inflorescence units is highly variable in Nivenia and Aristea but the ancestral condition is most likely racemose (Goldblatt, 1993a,b) with lateral inflorescences borne on short lateral branches (sessile lateral branches, thus spicately arranged, are considered homologous)"
"They consist of spicately or paniculately arranged glomerules of flowers."

Etymology

From spicate + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: spicate

Inflected Forms

more spicately (comparative) most spicately (superlative)

Questions

What does spicately mean?: Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
Where does spicately come from?: From spicate + -ly.

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