Definitions for fascicles

fascicles fas·ci·cle

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

Fascicles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in fascicles (accefilss).

Definitions for fascicles

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 fascicles

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

Examples for fascicles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The variations are mainly in the number of leaves in 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.

Word Value for fascicles
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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