laciniate

American  

[luh-sin-ee-eyt, -it] / ləˈsɪn iˌeɪt, -ɪt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.

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laciniate British  

/ -ɪt, ləˈsɪnɪˌeɪt /

adjective

1. biology jagged

   a laciniate leaf

2. having a fringe

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Other Word Forms

• laciniation noun
• multilaciniate adjective
• sublaciniate adjective

Etymology

Origin of laciniate

1750–60; < New Latin lacin ( ia ) (special use of Latin lacinia lappet) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Peridium thin, not uniform, presently breaking up into laciniate scales; at first yellow, then bluish-ashen; when empty, white.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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 Vries, Hugo de

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

Thallus orbicular, tender, laciniate and undulate or crisped, papillose-reticulate.

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

Coarse perennial or biennial herbs, often resinous-viscid, ours glabrous and leafy with sessile or clasping alternate and spinulose-serrate or laciniate rigid leaves, and large heads terminating leafy branches.

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