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Webster 1913 Edition
Penicillate
Penˊi-cil′late
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
pénicillé
. See Penicil
.] (Biol.)
Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel’s-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.