fasciculate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fasciculate
First recorded in 1785–95; fascicul(us) + -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The above is obvious in flowers which from elongation of the axis of inflorescence, have fasciculate or aggregate flowers.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
P. 5-9 cm. hemispher. densely covered with tawny-red squamules of fasciculate hairs; flesh and veil tawny; g. adnate; s. 6-9 cm. fibrillose, tawny; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Sporangia fasciculate, confluent on a persistent hypothallus, dark fuscous; peridia very fugacious; stipes united at the base, erect, furcate; spores large, brown, globose.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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)
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.
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