ppl. a. Also folliculate (Cent. Dict.). [as if f. *folliculate vb. (f. FOLLICULE + -ATE) + -ED1.]

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  1.  Anat. and Bot. Provided with a follicle or follicles.

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1775.  Ash, Folliculated (adj. in botany) having seed vessels.

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1787.  Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 418. Ending below the thyroid, which is folliculated on its inner surface on the fore part of the cricoid cartilage.

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1839–47.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 572. Its diseases derive no peculiarities from their situation, and for the most part belong to the integuments, which are vascular, highly folliculated, and in the male densely bearded.

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  2.  Entom. Contained in a follicle or cocoon.

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1856–8.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 404. Pupa smooth, in some folliculated, in most buried beneath the earth.

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