a. Now rare. [See prec. and -ED1.]

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  1.  Bot. Having the form of a spike.

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1661.  Blount, Glossogr., Spicated, eared, or in an ear, as corn is.

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1712.  Phil. Trans., XXVII. 422. The Flowers grow spicated in a loose tuft.

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1750.  G. Hughes, Barbados, 254. The top of the stalk terminates in a spicated tuft.

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  2.  Furnished with spikelets; bristly.

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1702.  Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1359. I plainly saw that all the bristles on the body of one of them … were … spicated (if I may make a word) or bearded like the Ear on the Seed head of some Grasses.

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1742.  H. Baker, Microsc., II. xxiii. 189. Those Hairs were spicated, or had other little Hairs issuing from their Sides.

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1791.  W. Gilpin, Forest Scenery, I. 51. The catkins of both are round, spicated balls.

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1859.  Sala, Gas-light & D., xxv. 285. This big, barbated, spicated basso, with the beard of a sapeur.

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