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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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
The edges of the gills are thus sometimes finely fimbriate.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
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 surface is hairy and the margin is often fimbriate with coarse hairs.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
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
The pilei are imbricated, fibrous, scaly, margin fimbriated, at first dirty white.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Among the reptiles, the crocodile of the Ganges, the fimbriated tortoise of Cayenne, &c.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
In incomplete tubal abortion the maternal blood may slowly trickle from the fimbriated extremity of the tube into the abdominal cavity, become encapsulated, and thus form an haematocele.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
The cirri may or may not be fimbriated, the latter condition indicating the approaching disintegration of the body and is abnormal.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
This part is fimbriated, as has been said, and one of the fimbriae—the Fimbria Ovarica—which is longer than the others, forms a shallow gutter which extends to the ovary.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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