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Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Lavender :: Lavender (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts..

Valerianaceous :: Valerianaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard..

Herse :: Herse (n.) A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).

Pepper :: Pepper (n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth..

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge..

Spike :: Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.

Cornucopia :: Cornucopia (n.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Spiculate :: Spiculate (a.) Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets..

Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..

Spicated :: Spicated (a.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes..

Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..

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