a. [ad. L. vēsiculōs-us full of blisters: see VESICULA + -OSE.] Full of vesicles; vesicular.
1817. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., II. 223. The elytra…, shrowding its vesiculose abdomen, gave it much the appearance of a fine flower.
1855. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 332. Abdomen inflated, vesiculose.
1861. Hagen, Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer., 171. Abdomen compressed at base, vesiculose, triquetral.
Hence Vesiculoso-, employed as a combining form, as vesiculoso-cellular adj.
1825. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xxxviii. 69. In Sphinx Ligustri the bronchiæ terminate in oblong vesiculoso-cellular bodies, almost like lungs.
