Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bundle.
- noun One of the parts of a book published in separate sections.
- noun Botany A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bundle; a small collection or connected group; a cluster.
- noun In mosses, the tissue of elongated cells taking the place of fibrovascular bundles in the nerves, etc.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, a fasciculus.
- noun A part of a printed work: a small number of printed or written sheets bound together. Also, in all senses, fasciculus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster.
- noun One of the divisions of a book published in parts; fasciculus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bundle orcluster . - noun anatomy : A bundle of
skeletal muscle fibers surrounded byconnective tissue . - noun botany : A
cluster offlowers orleaves , such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) ofpines . - noun botany : A
discrete bundle ofvascular tissue . - noun A discrete
section of a bookissued or published separately.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
- noun an installment of a printed work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of beginning the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host, after having penetrated the skin surface with the sharply-pointed "fascicle".
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This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of beginning the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host, after having penetrated the skin surface with the sharply-pointed "fascicle".
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This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of beginning the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host, after having penetrated the skin surface with the sharply-pointed "fascicle".
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OED1 has the word, but the first fascicle of the OED was published in 1884, probably three years after this little book.
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Working as quickly as Murray and his sub-editors and assistants could do — often 13 hours a day, it was nevertheless five years before the first published fascicle (A-Ant) came from the press in 1884, a “slender, somewhat undistinguished-looking paperback book,” the first of 128 such fascicles that would make up the entire dictionary.
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Each town is published separately as a fascicle or folder and includes a series of maps complemented by a detailed text section.
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The arrogance of such logic is at best questionable and at worst fascicle.
Archive 2008-05-01 Martyn Daniels 2008
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A fascicle marked very distinctly “1” caught my attention, and I took it up.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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I put down the last fascicle of all, and met his friendly eyes.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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Obs. exc. dial. (ovest); in the century since then (the fascicle Outjet-Ozyat appeared in January 1904) they not only added the second dialect citation, they decided (quite rightly) that it should be entered under the modern spelling.
bestiary commented on the word fascicle
also fascicule.
July 24, 2008
dhuber commented on the word fascicle
My favorite definition, from botany (taken from the OED) is:
"A cluster of leaves or flowers with very short stalks growing closely together at the base; a tuft. Also, a bunch of roots growing from one point."
Note that it has also been spelled: fasickle
September 27, 2008