Definitions for vesicular

vesicular ve·sic·u·lar

Spelling: [vuh-sik-yuh-ler]
IPA: /vəˈsɪk yə lər/

Vesicular is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 677 anagrams from letters in vesicular (aceilrsuv).

Definitions for vesicular

adjective

  1. of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
  2. having the form of a vesicle.
  3. characterized by or consisting of vesicles.

Origin of vesicular

1705-15; New Latin vēsīculāris, equivalent to Latin vēsīcul(a) vesicle + -āris -ar1

Examples for vesicular

In what kinds of lava is the vesicular structure most abundantly met with?

What is the origin of the vesicular structure in igneous rocks?

The membrane of the vesicular nucleus is thin, but firm, and encloses a clear or finely granular mass of nuclein.

The erythematous and vesicular varieties are the most favorable.

Face covered with a red, flat, dry eruption, particularly on the cheeks; small and vesicular on the chin and around the mouth.

The plain terminates, where we ascended, in an escarpment of vesicular trap-rock, which supplies the fragments of the creek below.

The other portion of the nervous structure is the vesicular.

In Lactarius and Russula the trama, or inner substance, is vesicular.

This umbilication in the vesicular stage is somewhat peculiar.

The usual structure, however, is vesicular or cellular, as in Fig. 58.

Word Value for vesicular
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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