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Definition of "vesiculate" []

  • To make or become vesicular. (verb-transitive)
  • Full of or bearing vesicles; vesicular. (adjective)

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 "vesiculate" in a sentence
  • "The usual plants recur with shingle and in sand, the chief is a _Santonica_, {349} a few novelties occurred, among which is a curious plant, with large vesiculate petaloid connectiva."
  • "The seed-pods are long, smooth, somewhat vesiculate, and terminate in a short spur, or beak."
  • "This septal pore cap, which restricts organelle translocation, can be of the vesiculate type, the perforate type or the imperforate type"