Usually means: Having a tuft resembling a brush.
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  1. penicillate: Merriam-Webster
  2. penicillate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penicillate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penicillate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penicillate: Wordnik
  6. penicillate: Wiktionary
  7. penicillate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. penicillate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. penicillate: Dictionary.com
  10. Penicillate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. penicillate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Penicillate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. penicillate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. penicillate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. penicillate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. penicillate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Penicillate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (penicillate)

▸ adjective:  (botany, zoology) Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs.

Similar:
penicillated, penicilliform, hirtellous, pistilliferous, capillaceous, pistillate, pistillaceous, manicate, petalled, pollinose, more...

Opposite:
non-penicillate, unpenicillate, apenicillate

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Similar:
penicillated, penicilliform, hirtellous, pistilliferous, capillaceous, pistillate, pistillaceous, manicate, petalled, pollinose, more...

Opposite:
non-penicillate, unpenicillate, apenicillate



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