fascicle

n.

1. A small bundle.
2. One of the parts of a book published in separate sections. Also called fascicule.
3. Botany. A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves.
4. See fasciculus.

[Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis, bundle.]

fascicled fas'ci·cled adj.

(FAS-i-kuhl)

noun
1. Part of a book published in installments. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary was published in fascicles.
2. A bundle. For example, a bundle of nerve or muscle fibers, or a bundle of leaves.

Etymology
From Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis (bundle)

The word fascism is related. It refers to the Latin fascis (a bundle or a group) and also to the emblem adopted by Mussolini: a bundle of twigs that was carried as a sign of the power of a magistrate in ancient Rome.

Usage
"Between 1952 and 1984, about two fascicles a year were published." — Edward Walsh; A Lexicographic Trip Of Millions of Slips; The Washington Post; May 27, 1992.

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A small bundle or cluster, especially of nerve or muscle fibers.

/FA si kul/ 1) a small or slender bundle (as of pine needles or nerve fibers)
2) one of the divisions of a book published in parts

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