Fas*tig"i*ate (?), Fas*tig"i*a`ted (?), a. [L. fastigium gable end, top, height, summit.]
1.
Narrowing towards the top.
2. Bot.
Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
3. Zool.
United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
© Webster 1913.