emarginate

American  

[ih-mahr-juh-neyt, -nit] / ɪˈmɑr dʒəˌneɪt, -nɪt /

Also emarginated

adjective

1. notched at the margin.

2. Botany. notched at the apex, as a petal or leaf.

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emarginate British  

/ ɪˈmɑːdʒɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. having a notched tip or edge

   emarginate leaves

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emarginate Scientific  

/ ĭ-mär′jə-nĭt,-nāt′ /

1. Having a shallow notch at the tip, as in some petals and leaves or the tails of some birds.

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Other Word Forms

• emarginately adverb
• emargination noun
• subemarginate adjective
• subemarginated adjective

Etymology

Origin of emarginate

1785–95; < Latin ēmarginātus deprived of its edge, equivalent to ē- e- ¹ + margin- ( margin ) + ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Skull: Broader, more angular and more nearly flat; zygomatic arches more widely spreading; zygomatic processes of maxillae heavier; posterior ends of nasals emarginate rather than rounded; upper incisors longer.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.

Fruit saucer-shaped, emarginate at base and apex, winged by the divergent cells.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Skull: About the same size; smoother; zygomatic arches weaker and less widely spreading; nasals rounded posteriorly as opposed to emarginate; mastoid breadth less; pterygoid hamulae weaker; upper incisors wider.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.

Bill long as head, lamellæ exposed along projecting edge of upper mandible; tail of sixteen feathers, short and rounded; hind toe very small, outer shorter than third, centre rather long; interdigital membrane emarginate.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Skull: Shorter; nasals shorter; zygomatic breadth less; nasals truncate or shallowly emarginate posteriorly as opposed to rounded; upper incisors narrower.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.