The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vesiculate
Vesiculate \Ve*sic"u*late\, a. Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
Vesiculate
Vesiculate \Ve*sic"u*late\, v. t. To form vesicles in, as lava.
Wiktionary
vesiculate
vesicular v
1 (context transitive English) to make vesicular 2 (context intransitive English) to become vesicular
WordNet
vesiculate
v. become vesicular or full of air cells; "The organs vesiculated"
cause to become vesicular or full of air cells; "vesiculate an organ"
Usage examples of "vesiculate".
It was a dull, gray rock, vesiculated like scoria, and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled.
Thus, the strength of the rocks capping a cooling and vesiculating magma body is easily exceeded long before the magma is solid.