• (a.) 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. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/penicillate/
Pen`i·cil'late adjective [ Confer French pénicillé . 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. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/46