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fimbrillate

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[fim-bril-it, -eyt] / fɪmˈbrɪl ɪt, -eɪt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

  1. bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.

Etymology

Origin of fimbrillate

< New Latin fimbrill ( a ) little fringe ( see fimbria) + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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Corymbosely much branched; heads small, sessile, in little clusters crowded in flat-topped corymbs; the closely appressed involucral scales somewhat glutinous; receptacle fimbrillate; rays 6–20, short, more numerous than the disk-flowers; leaves narrow, entire, sessile.

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

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