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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Ovules and seeds as in § 1; corolla almost rotate, with fimbriate lobes, and no appendages within; filaments villous-bearded, rarely exserted; leaves pinnatifid, the upper clasping.
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 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 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 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
In thalloid forms fimbriate or lobed margins or outgrowths from the surface lead to the same result.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
If the fimbriated extremity of the tube is blocked, the blood accumulates in the tube and makes an haematosalpynx.
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)
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 Nuttall, P. Austin
With some undescribed species of Boronia, a new genus allied to Eriostemon has been observed on the north-western shores, in the parallel of 15 degrees South, having a remarkable pinnatified fimbriated calyx.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
The orifice is not fimbriated; the four bristly points over the calcareous beads are absent.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
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