fimbriate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of fimbriate
First recorded in 1480–90, fimbriate is from the Latin word fimbriātus fringed. See fimbria, -ate 1
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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 Miron Elisha Hard
The margin of the cap is finely fimbriate, but in old specimens these hairs are apt to become rubbed off.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The edges of the gills are thus sometimes finely fimbriate.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
Lower lobe of corolla fimbriate, much the largest.
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 Asa Gray
The surface is hairy and the margin is often fimbriate with coarse hairs.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The large ends, which hang loose, terminate in open mouths, the margins of which consist of fimbriated processes, and nearly touch the ovaria.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
Among the reptiles, the crocodile of the Ganges, the fimbriated tortoise of Cayenne, &c.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
These teeth sometimes form a regular fringe round the margin, and the 564 petal becomes fimbriated, as in the pink; or laciniated, as in Lychnis Flos-cuculi; or crested, as in Polygala.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Flowers from apex of stem, 1½ in. long and wide, and composed of about thirty fimbriated sepals and twenty-five to forty narrow petals; colour bright purple.
Union Jack, originally the flag of Great Britain, on which the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew are blended, with which certain white streaks were blended or fimbriated after the Union with Ireland.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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