fasciatedadj.
/ˈfaʃɪeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈfæʃiˌeɪdᵻd/ 1.
a. Botany. See quot. 1835.
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1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 382 Fasciated [is] when several contiguous parts grow unnaturally together into one.
1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. x. 365 The flower-stem [of the Cockscomb] is wonderfully ‘fasciated’ or compressed.
b. Crystallography. Massed together.
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1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 133 Very small crystals, elegantly fasciated in various directions.
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1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. Palladio Architecture (1721) I. 79 The Arches of the..Rooms near the Galleries, are fasciated.
3. Marked with bands or stripes; striped.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > stripes, bars, or lines
barreda1387
streamed1641
fasciated1752
traversed1780
brick-barred1888
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 152 The bluish, fasciated Porcellana.
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 137 Red fasciated with black or white, along the spires.
1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan II. 204 The columns are ribbed, and near their tops doubly fasciated.
1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 312 Fasciated Sandpiper.
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