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Definition of "fascicle" [fas•ci•cle]

  • A small bundle. (noun)
  • One of the parts of a book published in separate sections. Also called fascicule. (noun)
  • Botany A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves. (noun)
  • See fasciculus. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fascicle" in a sentence
  • "This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of beginning the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host, after having penetrated the skin surface with the sharply-pointed "fascicle"."
  • "OED1 has the word, but the first fascicle of the OED was published in 1884, probably three years after this little book."
  • "Working as quickly as Murray and his sub-editors and assistants could do — often 13 hours a day, it was nevertheless five years before the first published fascicle (A-Ant) came from the press in 1884, a “slender, somewhat undistinguished-looking paperback book,” the first of 128 such fascicles that would make up the entire dictionary."