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laciniate

[ luh-sin-ee-eyt, -it ]

adjective

Botany, Zoology.
  1. cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.


laciniate

/ -ɪt; ləˈsɪnɪˌeɪt /

adjective

  1. biology jagged

    a laciniate leaf

  2. having a fringe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • laˌciniˈation, noun
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Other Words From

  • multi·la·cini·ate adjective
  • subla·cini·ate adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate1

1750–60; < New Latin lacin ( ia ) (special use of Latin lacinia lappet) + -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate1

C17: from Latin lacinia flap
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Example Sentences

Coarse perennial or biennial herbs, often resinous-viscid, ours glabrous and leafy with sessile or clasping alternate and spinulose-serrate or laciniate rigid leaves, and large heads terminating leafy branches.

Peridium thin, not uniform, presently breaking up into laciniate scales; at first yellow, then bluish-ashen; when empty, white.

From Korshinsky's survey of varieties with cut leaves or laciniate forms the following cases may be quoted.

It occurs with abortive, deformed, or tubular and laciniate rays.

Scape 1–2° high; leaves linear to lanceolate, entire to dentate or laciniate; head often pubescent or villous; achene long-beaked.—Minn. to Neb. and southwestward.

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