▪ I. fasciculate, a.
(fəˈsɪkjʊlət)
[f. as prec. + -ate2.]
Arranged in a fascicle; fascicle-like; growing or occurring in a bunch, bundle, or tuft. a. Bot. b. Zool. c. Path.
| a. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvii. 412 The roots are..fasciculate. 1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes fr. Nature 46 Its branches are fasciculate and disposed around the stem in spirals. 1872 Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 80 Leaves tufted in this way are said to be fasciculate [as in Pine]. |
| b. 1846 Dana Zooph. iv. (1848) 83 When the branches are laterally in contact, as in the Columnariæ..fasciculate forms result. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 117 A fasciculate rather than an arborescent arrangement. |
| c. 1847–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 119/2 The ‘fasciculate’ variety of cancer. |
Hence faˈsciculately adv.
| 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Fasciculately-tuberous, roots composed of parcels of tubers. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 308 Corallum with unequal lamellæ, fasciculately interrupted. |
▪ II. † faˈsciculate, v. Obs.—0
[f. L. fascicul-us + -ate3.]
trans. ‘To tie up into a bundle or fascicle’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656–81).
| 1708–32 in Coles. |