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Meaning of fasciation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
fæsɪˈeɪʃən

Definitions

  1. The binding up of a limb, etc., with bandages.
  2. A bandage.
  3. The process or state of being fasciated.
  4. Abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip) becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue.

Equivalents

Français fasciation

Examples

“[…] able to break the fasciations and bands of death […]”
“These odd-looking shoots are not diseased but are the result of a fairly common condition known as "fasciation" that affects shoots on all sorts of plants quite randomly and for no apparent reason, but presumed by plant experts to be the result of damage to buds just as the shoots were starting to form. There is therefore nothing to be alarmed about and you should simply cut off the shoots that are unsightly. […] Fasciation can also affect, with somewhat more visually catastrophic results, various spire-forming herbaceous plants such as delphiniums and hollyhocks.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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