Fastigiated: Definition and part of speech

Fastigiated

  1. a. United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
  2. a. Narrowing towards the top.
  3. a. Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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