(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:53:15

Pen`i*cil"late (?), a. [Cf. F. p'enicill'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.

 

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