Crossword clues for fascicle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fascicle \Fas"ci*cle\, n. [L. fasciculus, dim. of fascis. See Fasces.]
A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
One of the divisions of a book published in parts; fasciculus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a bunch, bundle, small collection," 1620s, from Latin fasciculus "a small bundle, a bunch (of flowers); small collection (of letters, books, etc.)," diminutive of fascis (see fasces). As "part of a work published in installments," 1640s (also fascicule, from French). Related: Fasciculate; fasciculation; fascicular; fascicularly; fasciculated.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bundle or cluster. 2 (context anatomy English) A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue. 3 (context botany English) A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines. 4 (context botany English) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue. 5 A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
WordNet
n. an installment of a printed work [syn: fascicule]
a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) [syn: fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fasciculus]
Wikipedia
A fascicle is a bundle or a cluster. The Latin term fasciculus (plural fasciculi) may also be used with the same meanings.
Fascicle or fasciculus may refer to:
In botany, a fascicle (also called a short shoot when that is morphologically appropriate) is a bundle of leaves or flowers growing crowded together; alternatively the term might refer to the vascular tissues that supply such an organ with nutrients. However, vascular tissues may occur in fascicles even when the organs they supply are not fascicled. In zoology and animal anatomy the term fascicle refers to a small bundle, usually of fibres, nerves, or vessels.
Usage examples of "fascicle".
There is a faint trembling of the fascicles as Sunday shifts into third and final gear.
The immature ivory, some of which was no thicker than a human wrist, had been bound with strips of bark rope into fascicles, each making up a load that an ox could carry comfortably.
The catalogue consisted of forty-four fascicles, each of fifty leaves, so that the whole constituted a volume of two thousand two hundred leaves, two-fifths of which were filled with titles of poetical works only.
The Travelling Diary (so he called it) was kept in fascicles of ruled paper, which were at last bound up, rudely indexed, and put by for future reference.