fasciole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fasciola (“a little bandage”). See fascia.

Noun

fasciole (plural fascioles)

1. (zoology) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins.

Derived terms

• parafasciole

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fasciole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• focalise