spices, apexes

pl. The Latin and English forms of the plural of APEX (q.v.). * a-pick'-pack, adv . Astride on the back, as a child is sometimes carried. ( Flora's Vagaries, 1670, quoted in Wright's Dict. Obs. and Prov. Eng.) [PICK-A-BACK.] ā-pic-ul-āte, ā-pic-ul-ā-těd, a. Lat. apiculus, dim in, of Cla . Lat. apex.] [Mod. Bot. Pointleted; terminating abruptly in a little point. It differs from mucronate in this respect, that the point constitutes a part of the limb, instead of arising wholly from a costa. ( Lindley .)