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▪ I. vesiculate, a.|vɪˈsɪkjʊlət|
[ad. mod.L. vesiculat-us, f. L. vēsīcula vesicula.]
= vesiculated a.
1828–32Webster s.v., Vesiculate a., bladdery; full of bladders. 1866Treas. Bot. 1212/2 Vesiculate, inflated, bladdery. 1874Cooke Fungi 55 Innumerable protuberances, which..soon become round vesiculate cells. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 551/2 One of the vesiculate medusæ.
▪ II. veˈsiculate, v.
[Back-formation from next.]
1. trans. To make vesicular or full of air-cells.
1865Pall Mall G. 18 Oct. 10 He tells us that bread is ‘vesiculated’ by the carbonic acid gas forced into the dough.
2. intr. To become vesicular; to develop vesicles.
1891in Cent. Dict. 1966Earth-Sci. Rev. I. 158 A gas-charged lava flow..might vesiculate so violently at and near its surface that it would form glass and pumice fragments. 1971Nature 31 Dec. 539/1 Pulsations of ejected molten lava vesiculated and disintegrated passing immediately into the grey ash cloud. 1978Jrnl. Histochem. & Cytochem. XXVI. 1 When a semisynthetic diet containing 1% orotic acid..is fed to rats, the endoplasmic reticulum..of hepatocytes vesiculates and lipoprotein..droplets accumulate within the vesicles.
Hence veˈsiculating ppl. a.
1966Earth-Sci. Rev. I. 158, 10 years later Iddings (1909)..omitted the vesiculating flow idea. 1971Nature 31 Dec. 538/2 Blobs and droplets of expanded, molten, vesiculating magma are carried aloft with an expanding vapour. 1979Biochim. & Biophys. Acta DL. 222 Electron microscopy of vesiculating cells shows physical continuity between cell plasma membrane and vesicle membrane. 1983Sci. Amer. Nov. 148/3 Both pumice and ash are frothy glassy materials created by the chilling of vesiculating magma. |