This is described as a fastigium in the earliest sources, but was probably a ciborium.

The name of the gyrobifastigium comes from the Latin fastigium, meaning a sloping roof.

O.speciosa has a small median ridge on the fastigium and is much smaller than O. pelidna.

Pius also made him take up the habits of his new station, the aulicum fastigium or "pomp of the court", against Marcus' objections.

In the genus Barbitistes the anterior dorsal surface of the vertex (fastigium) is usually conical and blunt.

Motto: Fortiter ad Fastigium (Bravely to the Top)

Also, the fastigium frontis is tubercular and obtuse in this species, where it is spiniform and acute in the other three species.

The phenotype, a reddish-brown color, is restricted to adults and extends from the dorsal surface of the metazona of pronotum to the fastigium of vertex.

Mitra(Strigatella) fastigium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

These two species can be identified from one another by looking at the fastigium (the part of the head that is located in between the eyes of the grasshoppers and their size.

The fastigium, (Latin for summit), is used to refer to the peak of the fourth ventricle.The fastigial nucleus lies immediately above the roof of the fourth ventricle.

The plants eaten most frequently during the year include some species of Lycopodium ramulosum, Lycopodium fastigium, Schizaea fistulosa, Blechnum minus, Blechnum procerum, Cyathodes juniperina, Dracophyllum longifolium, Olearia colensoi and Thelymitra venosa.