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Webster 1913 Edition
Aristate
1.
(Bot.)
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
Gray.
2.
(Zool.)
Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.
Definition 2024
aristate
aristate
English
Adjective
aristate (not comparable)
- (botany) Having a long bristle at its apex.
- (botany) Having a pointed, beard-like process, like those of the glumes of wheat; awned.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
- (zoology) Having a slender, sharp, or spiny tip.