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Fasciate

Fasciate \Fas"ci*ate\, Fasciated \Fas"ci*a`ted\, a. [L. fasciatus, p. p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See Fasces.]

  1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

  2. (Bot.)

    1. Banded or compacted together.

    2. Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) Broadly banded with color.

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fasciate
  1. 1 bind with a fillet, sash, or bandage. 2 (context botany English) Banded or compacted together. 3 (context botany English) Flattened and laterally widened. 4 (context zoology English) Broadly banded with colour. v

  2. 1 To bind. 2 To apply fascia.

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Usage examples of "fasciate".

First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.

First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.