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penicillate, a. Nat. Hist.|ˈpɛnɪsɪlət|
[f. L. pēnicill-us (see penicil) + -ate2. Cf. mod.F. pénicillé.]
a. Furnished with a penicil or penicils; having a small tuft or tufts of hairs, scales, etc.
b. Formed into or forming a small tuft or brush.
c. Having markings like those made with a pencil or brush; streaked, pencilled.
1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 147 Joints [of tarsi] penicillate—dilated. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvi. 66 The penicillate family..is remarkable for several pencils or tufts of long and short scales, which distinguish the sides of the body. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 310 Rumex..stigmas penicillate.
So ˈpeniciˌllated a. = penicil; ˈpeniciˌllately adv., in the form of a penicil; ˌpeniciˈllation, a growth of hairs, etc., in the form of a penicil.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 556 The black points sometimes present a stellated or penicillated arrangement. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 127 The inner row [of tentacles],..furnished with a short fibrous penicillation at the ends. 1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 22 Filaments..in filiform fasciculi, which are often much elongate and penicillately exserted from the open common sheath. |