fascicle

fas·ci·cle  (fs-kl)

n.

1. A small bundle.

2. One of the parts of a book published in separate sections. Also called fascicule.

3. Botany A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves.

4. See fasciculus.

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[Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis, bundle.]

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fasci·cled adj.

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fascicle  (fs-kl)

A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves, such as the bundles in which pine needles grow.

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fascicle

an installment of a book or journal that is published in parts.

See also: Books

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Fascicle small bundle or bunch; a tuft or cluster of leaves, etc.

Examples: fascicle of fibres, 1738; of flowers; of hair, 1792; of leaves [pages of a book]; of roots; of virtues, 1622.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fascicle - an installment of a printed work fascicule instalment, installment - a part of a published serial
	2.	fascicle - a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle trigonum cerebrale, fornix - an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies nerve tissue, nervous tissue - tissue composed of neurons nervous system, systema nervosum - the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells nerve, nervus - any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body