laciniate
Americanadjective
adjective
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biology jagged
a laciniate leaf
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having a fringe
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of laciniate
1750–60; < New Latin lacin ( ia ) (special use of Latin lacinia lappet) + -ate 1
Example Sentences
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This mode of origin is that already detailed for the laciniate varieties of alders and so many other trees.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Leaves spreading or ascending, ovate, rounded or oblong, entire or retuse, subconcave; underleaves mostly wanting; perianth 3–6 times longer than the leaves, subulate-fusiform, laciniate or ciliate.
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
Involucral leaves numerous, verticillate, deeply 4-cleft; perianth exserted, pyriform-cylindric, laciniate.
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
Involucral leaves 2–4, large, often spinulose; perianth triangular-prismatic, 3-lobed, ciliate or laciniate.
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
From Korshinsky's survey of varieties with cut leaves or laciniate forms the following cases may be quoted.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
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