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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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 Gray, Asa
It occurs with abortive, deformed, or tubular and laciniate rays.
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
Aments more loosely flowered, less silky; capsules more thinly tomentose; style longer; stigma-lobes laciniate; leaves narrower.
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
Perianth exserted, subcampanulate and open, deeply laciniate, connate with the involucral leaves.
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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