fasciated
- a variation of fasciate.
Example Sentences
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Cloud-forest plants and animals began to give way to parrots, fasciated tiger herons -- a hunter of large fish and snakes that looks like it is wearing a herringbone overcoat -- and other lowland creatures.
From Time Magazine Archive
First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
It is a common thing for fasciated branches and stems to divide at the summit into a number of subdivisions, and ordinarily this splitting occurs in the lower part, sometimes dividing the entire fasciated portion.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
It will not, of course, be forgotten that this fasciated condition occurs so frequently in some plants as almost to constitute their natural state, e.g.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
The pileus is rigid, coriaceous, resupinate, effused, reflexed, the lower margin generally adhering firmly, somewhat fasciated; velvety, rubiginous or rusty in color, then becoming smooth and bright brown, the intermediate stratum tawny-ferruginous.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
