Resembling bundles of sticks; having a clustered or bundled structure or appearance.
From fagot (bundle) + -y (adjective suffix). Describes physical characteristics that resemble bundles or clustering patterns, used in botanical, mineralogical, and architectural descriptions from the 18th-19th centuries.
Geologists used 'fagoty structure' to describe minerals that grew in bundled crystal formations—the same root word describing both firewood and precious stones!
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