Penicillate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]