'Penicillate' definitions:
Definition of 'Penicillate'
From: GCIDE
- Penicillate \Pen`i*cil"late\, a. [Cf. F. p['e]nicill['e]. 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. [1913 Webster]