Definitions for fascicle

fascicle fas·ci·cle

Spelling: [fas-i-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈfæs ɪ kəl/

Fascicle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in fascicle (accefils).

Definitions for fascicle

noun

  1. a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
  2. a small bundle, tight cluster, or the like.
  3. Botany. a close cluster, as of flowers or leaves.
  4. Anatomy. a small bundle of nerve or muscle fibers.

Origin of fascicle

1490-1500; Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis. See fasces, -cle1

Examples for fascicle

The cross-section of a cotyledon is, therefore, a triangle whose angles vary with the number composing the fascicle.

It can be recognized at once by the connate leaves that form the fascicle or by the remarkable stout curved peduncle of its cone.

Therefore if absolute certainty is required, a fascicle of triquetral leaves is best determined by actual count.

The variations are mainly in the number of leaves in the fascicle.

The fascicle of light that it emits has a perfect concentration.

The collar with a dark area ventrad and also dorsad of the fascicle.

No fascicle of five leaves, that I have examined, is equally apportioned among its five members.

Sometimes, on the other hand, Danaë has a fascicle of flowers inserted on the middle of the upper surface, as in Ruscus.

Theoretically the leaf, in section, should indicate the number of leaves composing its fascicle.

The name Phacelia is from a Greek word signifying a fascicle, or bunch, and refers to the fascicled or clustered flower-racemes.

Word Value for fascicle
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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