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.
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