fascicle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FAS'CICLE, noun [Latin fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.] In botany, a bundle, or little bundle; a species of inflorescence, or manner of flowering, in which several upright, parallel, fastigiate, approximating flowers are collected together.
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