Pronounced: en-TOP-tick, adj
Notes: I may have run across this word in reading, but I could not recall the definition
Yesterday’s word
The word fascicle means
- a section of a book or set of books published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes
- a small bundle, tight cluster, or the like
- (in botany) a close cluster, as of flowers or leaves
- (in anatomy) a small bundle or nerve or muscle fibers
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1400s
Background / Comments
Our word comes from the Latin word fasciculus, which is the diminutive of fascis (bundle; pack).
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