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Hemigamous :: Hemigamous (a.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses..

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

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

Spiked :: Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes..

Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..

Pudu :: Pudu (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long..

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes..

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

Twilly :: Twilly (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Plantain :: Plantain (n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world..

Spike :: Spike (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

Cockscomb :: Cockscomb (n.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli..

Spignet :: Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

Colicroot :: Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root..

Lizard''s Tail :: Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name..

Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.

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