vesiculateadj.
/vᵻˈsɪkjᵿlət/, /vᵻˈsɪkjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /vəˈsɪkjəˌleɪt/, /vəˈsɪkjələt/ = vesiculated adj.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > full of cavities > small
cellulate?a1425
cavernous1597
alveated1623
honeycombed1633
favaginous1658
cellulated1693
vesiculated1703
cellulous1712
cellulara1728
cellulose1752
cavernulous1758
comby1773
alveolate1793
vesiculate1828
cavernulated1875
cellularized1942
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Vesiculate a., bladdery; full of bladders.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1212/2 Vesiculate, inflated, bladdery.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 55 Innumerable protuberances, which..soon become round vesiculate cells.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 551/2 One of the vesiculate medusæ.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
vesiculatev.
/vᵻˈsɪkjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /vəˈsɪkjəˌleɪt/ 1. transitive. To make vesicular or full of air-cells.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] > make full of cavities
pot1487
honeycomb1735
cellulate1839
vesiculate1865
cellularize1948
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Oct. 10 He tells us that bread is ‘vesiculated’ by the carbonic acid gas forced into the dough.
2. intransitive. To become vesicular; to develop vesicles.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [verb (intransitive)] > vesiculate
vesiculate1891
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [verb (intransitive)] > develop cavities
vesiculate1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
1966 Earth-Sci. Rev. 1 158 A gas-charged lava flow..might vesiculate so violently at and near its surface that it would form glass and pumice fragments.
1971 Nature 31 Dec. 539/1 Pulsations of ejected molten lava vesiculated and disintegrated passing immediately into the grey ash cloud.
1978 Jrnl. Histochem. & Cytochem. 26 1 When a semisynthetic diet containing 1% orotic acid..is fed to rats, the endoplasmic reticulum..of hepatocytes vesiculates and lipoprotein..droplets accumulate within the vesicles.
Derivatives
veˈsiculating adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [adjective] > vesiculation
vesiculating1966
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > depression or cavity
capsulary1615
vesiculara1682
capsular1727
follicular1743
alveolar1816
antral1820
celluliferous1822
fossiform1824
impressed1826
sacciform1836
vestibular1836
ventricular1841
vestibulary1843
saccular1861
tubero-cystic1879
scrobicular1888
tubulosaccularc1900
vacuolized1910
cisternal1920
lacunate1957
vesiculating1966
1966 Earth-Sci. Rev. 1 158 10 years later Iddings (1909)..omitted the vesiculating flow idea.
1971 Nature 31 Dec. 538/2 Blobs and droplets of expanded, molten, vesiculating magma are carried aloft with an expanding vapour.
1979 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 550 222 Electron microscopy of vesiculating cells shows physical continuity between cell plasma membrane and vesicle membrane.
1983 Sci. Amer. Nov. 148/3 Both pumice and ash are frothy glassy materials created by the chilling of vesiculating magma.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1828
v.1865