fasciole
noun
fasciole is a noun meaning “A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, found on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-C-I-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fasciole is fascioles.
What does fasciole mean?
noun
- 1
A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, found on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins.
aboral fascioles
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fasciole
- fascioles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fasciole?
Fasciole appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fasciole come from?
Borrowed from Latin fasciola (“a little bandage”). See fascia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).