penicillate

Having or forming a tuft or brush of fine hairs.

Forming or formed into a little tuft or brush, especially at the end or tip: as, a penicillate tail; the penicillate or brushy tongue of a lory.

Provided with a penicillium.

Streaky; scratchy; penciled.

In entomology, specifically, provided with penicils.

In botany, pencil-shaped; consisting of a bundle of hairs resembling those of a hair pencil.

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.

Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs.