Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of binding up or fastening, as with bandages.
- noun The manner in which something is bound up or fastened.
- noun Botany An abnormal flattening or coalescence of plant parts, such as stems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or manner of binding with fasciæ specifically, a bandaging.
- noun That with which something is bound; a fascia.
- noun In botany, a malformation in plants, in which a stem or branch becomes expanded into a flat, ribbon-like shape, as if several stems were laterally coalescent in one plane.
- noun In zoology, marking with fasciæ; barring, banding, or transverse striping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The binding-up of a limb etc. with bandages.
- noun obsolete A
bandage . - noun The process or state of being
fasciated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this way it is probable that what is termed fasciation is brought about.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The Transition Zone in this region comprises a strong Mexican fasciation, including Chihuahua pine (Pinus leiophylla) and Apache pine (P. engelmannii) and unique varieties of ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa var. arizonica).
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Frequently also this condition is associated with fasciation, or, at least, with a distended or dilated state.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In some species of _Artabotrys_, indeed, fasciation and curvation of the inflorescence are common.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Cohesion of the leaves frequently accompanies the union of the branches and fasciation as might have been anticipated.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The list which is appended is intended to show those plants in which fasciation has been most frequently observed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Wigand mentions an instance in _Digitalis lutea_, where the upper part of the stem was divided into six or seven racemes; possibly this was a case of fasciation, but such a division of the inflorescence is by no means uncommon in the spicate species of _Veronica_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The last objection that Moquin raises to the opinion that fasciation is the result of a grafting process is, that in such a case, examples should be found wherein the branches are incompletely fused, and where on a transverse section traces of the medullary canals belonging to each branch should be visible.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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-- This curious monstrosity owes its origin to fasciation similar to what occurs in the
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If we exclude instances of fasciation, _i. e._ where several branches are fused together and flattened, we must admit that this flattening does not occur very often as a teratological appearance.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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