[f. as prec. + -ATE2.] Arranged in a fascicle; fascicle-like; growing or occurring in a bunch, bundle, or tuft. a. Bot. b. Zool. c. Path.
a. 1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvii. 412. The great number [of Orchis] have double bulbs; in the rest the roots are either palmate or fasciculate.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nature, 46. Its branches are fasciculate and disposed around the stem in spirals; it [Sphagnum or bog-moss] has no roots whatever, but floats unattached in an upright position in the water; its cell-walls are perforated, and the leaf-cells contain a well-developed spiral; while the stem is composed of tissue, which, under the microscope, bears a close resemblance to the glandular structure of the stems of coniferous trees.
1872. Oliver, Elem. Bot., I. vii. 80. Leaves tufted in this way are said to be fasciculate [as in Pine, Larch, and Cedar].
b. 1846. Dana, Zooph., iv. (1848), 83. When the branches are laterally in contact, as in the Columnariæ … fasciculate forms result.
1870. G. Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life, Introd., 117. A fasciculate rather than an arborescent arrangement.
c. 1847–9. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, IV. 119/2. The ‘fasciculate’ variety of cancer.
Hence Fasciculately adv.
1840. Paxton, Bot. Dict., Fasciculately-tuberous, roots composed of parcels of tubers.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 308. Corallum with unequal lamellæ, fasciculately interrupted.
