Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Abnormally flattened or coalesced, as certain stems.
- adj. Zoology Marked by broad bands of color, as certain insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In bot.:
- Banded or compacted together.
- Same as fasciated, 2.
- In zoology, marked with a fascia or with fasciæ. See fascia, 8.
Wiktionary
- v. To bind.
- v. To apply fascia.
- adj. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
- adj. botany Banded or compacted together.
- adj. botany Flattened and laterally widened.
- adj. zoology Broadly banded with colour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
- adj. Banded or compacted together.
- adj. Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Broadly banded with color.
Etymologies
- From Latin fasciare, to swathe or bind. (Wiktionary)
- Latin fasciātus, from fascia, band. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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