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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Abnormally flattened or coalesced, as certain stems.
  2. adj. Zoology Marked by broad bands of color, as certain insects.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In bot.:
  2. Banded or compacted together.
  3. Same as fasciated, 2.
  4. In zoology, marked with a fascia or with fasciæ. See fascia, 8.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To bind.
  2. v. To apply fascia.
  3. adj. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
  4. adj. botany Banded or compacted together.
  5. adj. botany Flattened and laterally widened.
  6. adj. zoology Broadly banded with colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
  2. adj. Banded or compacted together.
  3. adj. Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
  4. adj. (Zoöl.) Broadly banded with color.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin fasciare, to swathe or bind. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin fasciātus, from fascia, band. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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