Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arranged in or formed of fascicles; fascicular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing in fascicles or clusters.
- In entomology: Having dispersed tufts of long hairs, either arranged in rows or scattered irregularly over the surface. See
fascicule . - Split into many long processes: as, fasciculate palpi.
- In mineralogy, occurring in fibrous bundles of needle-like crystals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
fascicles
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Examples
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The above is obvious in flowers which from elongation of the axis of inflorescence, have fasciculate or aggregate flowers.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The leaves are of a dark shining green colour, richly cut -- as the specific name implies -- after the style of the Aconites; the roots are fasciculate, long, and fleshy.
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Spikelets are solitary, binate or fasciculate, 2-flowered, jointed on the pedicel and awned.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Ray DS (2008) Structure of discontinuities in kinetoplast DNA-associated minicircles during S phase in Crithidia fasciculate.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010
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Ray DS (2008) Structure of discontinuities in kinetoplast DNA-associated minicircles during S phase in Crithidia fasciculate.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010
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If two crossing dendrites fasciculate with innervating axons, then synaptic density will be higher at and near the contact area, producing a gradient of glutamate.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pablo Blinder et al. 2008
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Chocolate and pudding? At the same time? marypcb 2004
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