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fasciculate

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[fuh-sik-yuh-lit, -leyt] / fəˈsɪk jə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /
Also fasciculated

adjective

  1. arranged in a fascicle or fascicles.


Etymology

Origin of fasciculate

First recorded in 1785–95; fascicul(us) + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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Stipes long, erect or curved, simple or usually fasciculate and often connate, arising from a thin hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Sporangia obovoid to pyriform or clavate, often fasciculate, stipitate; the wall a thin membrane, with a thick dense outer layer of brown-red granules.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Sessile, hemispherical, waxy, externally brownish, clothed with dense, fasciculate hairs; disk glaucous-white.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Spikelets are solitary, binate or fasciculate, 2-flowered, jointed on the pedicel and awned.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Erect jointed threads, branched in the upper portion in a fasciculate manner, and bearing long beaded threads of spores, which formed a tassel-like head, at the apex of each fertile thread.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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