fimbriate

American  

[fim-bree-it, -eyt, fim-bree-eyt] / ˈfɪm bri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈfɪm briˌeɪt /

adjective

1. Botany, Zoology. Also fimbriated. having a border of hairs or filiform processes.

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verb (used with object)

fimbriated, fimbriating

1. Heraldry. to line (an ordinary) with a thin border of a different tincture.

fimbriate British  

/ ˈfɪmbrɪlɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈfɪmbrɪɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having a fringed margin, as some petals, antennae, etc

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonfimbriate
  adjective
• fimbriation
  noun
• unfimbriated
  adjective
• nonfimbriated
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of fimbriate

First recorded in 1480–90, fimbriate is from the Latin word fimbriātus fringed. See fimbria, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Flowers large, solitary on long terminal peduncles, mostly 4-merous; corolla campanulate-funnel-form, its lobes usually fimbriate or erose, not crowned; a row of glands between the bases of the filaments.

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

P. 4-7 cm. campan. convex, broadly umb. fibrillose then squamulose, edge fimbriate, yellowish then tinged red; g. sinuate, edge fimbriate becoming spotted or tinged red; s. 4-6 cm. fibrillose, rosy, apex white and mealy; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The winter-bud is an aggregate of minute buds, each concealed in the axil of a primary leaf converted into a scarious, more or less fimbriate, bud-scale.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Pileus is quite thin, spongy, fleshy, then dry; plane, hairy-tomentose, ferruginous, then blackish-brown; margin fibrous, fimbriate, internally loose and parallel, fibrous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. conico-campan. edge striate, livid-grey; g. free, crowded, white, edge fimbriate; s. equal, almost glabrous, partly hollow, colour of p., ring apical, persistent, white; volva free, sheathing, limb lobed, whitish; sp. 10-12 � 8.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George