a. [f. FASCICUL-US + -AR.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Fascicular, belonging to a bundle or fardel.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
¶ With allusion to FASCES.
1866. Sala, Barbary, 28. A fascicular bundle of canes of which a Roman lictor might have been proud.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a fascicle. a. Bot. Also, Fascicular tissue, ‘a term which includes all the varieties of cellular tissue of plants which are collected into bundles or fascicles’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1884).
1840. Paxton, Bot. Dict., Fascicular, arranged in bundles or parcels.
1884. Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner. & Ferns, 400. Whether the accompanying fibrous strands belong to the ‘fascicular tissue’ or to the ‘ground tissue.’
b. Geol. and Min.
1805–17. R. Jameson, Char. Min. (ed. 3), 238. Fascicular or scopiform, when the fibres diverge only on one side, so that the middle fibres are often longer than the lateral ones, as in malachite, fibrous zeolite, and reniform red hermatite.
1816. P. Cleaveland, Min., ii. 54. The fibres may be radiated, diverging on all sides from a common centre, or fascicular, like a bundle of rods confined at one extremity, or promiscuous.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, xii. 237. Confused, fascicular, radiating aggregates.
c. Anat.
1845. Todd & Bowman, Phys. Anat., I. 70. Fascicular flattened bands, more or less expanded.
Hence Fascicularly adv., in a fascicular manner.
17[?]. Kirwan (cited in Webster)
1847. in Craig.
