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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To make or become vesicular.
  • adjective Full of or bearing vesicles; vesicular.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To fill or cover with vesicles; render vesiculate or vesicular.
  • Having a vesicle or vesicles; formed into or forming vesicular tissue; vesicular.
  • To become vesicular.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
  • transitive verb To form vesicles in, as lava.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive to make vesicular
  • verb intransitive to become vesicular
  • adjective vesicular

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb become vesicular or full of air cells
  • verb cause to become vesicular or full of air cells

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