Usually means: Located at the tip; highest.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word apical:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. apical: Merriam-Webster
  2. apical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apical, apical: Wordnik
  7. apical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apical: Wiktionary
  9. apical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apical: Dictionary.com
  13. Apical (anatomy), Apical (chemistry), Apical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Apical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. apical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. apical: Rhymezone
  17. Apical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. apical: FreeDictionary.org
  19. apical: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. apical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. apical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. apical: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apical: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. apical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Apical: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Apical (cell biology), apical: Medical dictionary
  6. Apical: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See apically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apical)

adjective:  Of or connected with the apex.
adjective:  (botany, of a meristem) Situated at the growing tip of the plant or its roots, in comparison with intercalary growth situated between zones of permanent tissue.
adjective:  (phonetics, phonology, of a sound) Produced with the tip of the tongue.
noun:  (phonetics) A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

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