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▪ I. fasciculate, a.|fəˈsɪkjʊlət| [f. as prec. + -ate2.] Arranged in a fascicle; fascicle-like; growing or occurring in a bunch, bundle, or tuft. a. Bot. b. Zool. c. Path. a.1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvii. 412 The roots are..fasciculate. 1861H. Macmillan Footnotes fr. Nature 46 Its branches are fasciculate and disposed around the stem in spirals. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 80 Leaves tufted in this way are said to be fasciculate [as in Pine]. b.1846Dana Zooph. iv. (1848) 83 When the branches are laterally in contact, as in the Columnariæ..fasciculate forms result. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 117 A fasciculate rather than an arborescent arrangement. c.1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 119/2 The ‘fasciculate’ variety of cancer. Hence faˈsciculately adv.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Fasciculately-tuberous, roots composed of parcels of tubers. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 308 Corallum with unequal lamellæ, fasciculately interrupted. ▪ II. † faˈsciculate, v. Obs.—0 [f. L. fascicul-us + -ate3.] trans. ‘To tie up into a bundle or fascicle’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656–81).
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