fimbriate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
adjective
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Origin of fimbriate
First recorded in 1480–90, fimbriate is from the Latin word fimbriātus fringed. See fimbria, -ate 1
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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 margin of the cap is finely fimbriate, but in old specimens those hairs are apt to become rubbed off.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 edges of the gills are thus sometimes finely fimbriate.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
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 George Russell Shaw
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
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 Austin ?Malley
P. 1.5-3 cm. obtuse, hygr. purplish then pale; g. broad, adnexed, purplish with darker fimbriated margin; s. 5-8 cm. equal, pallid; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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.
Squames: the flattened, fimbriated or spine-like marginal processes of the pygidium in Diaspinae, other than the lobes and true spines: = "plates," of Comst.; or "scaly hairs" of Maskell.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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