vesiculose, a.
(vɪsɪkjʊˈləʊs)
[ad. L. vēsīculōs-us full of blisters: see vesicula + -ose.]
Full of vesicles; vesicular.
| 1817 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. II. 223 The elytra.., shrowding its vesiculose abdomen, gave it much the appearance of a fine flower. 1856 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 332 Abdomen inflated, vesiculose. 1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 171 Abdomen compressed at base, vesiculose, triquetral. |
Hence vesicuˈloso-, employed as a combining form, as vesiculoso-cellular adj.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xxxviii. 69 In Sphinx Ligustri the bronchiæ terminate in oblong vesiculoso-cellular bodies, almost like lungs. |