laciniate

[luh-sin-ee-eyt, -it]

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

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

laciniate

/ -ɪt, ləˈsɪnɪˌeɪt /

adjective

1. biology jagged

   a laciniate leaf

2. having a fringe

Other Word Forms

• multilaciniate adjective
• sublaciniate adjective
• laciniation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate¹

C17: from Latin lacinia flap

Example Sentences

Aments more loosely flowered, less silky; capsules more thinly tomentose; style longer; stigma-lobes laciniate; leaves narrower.

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

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From Korshinsky's survey of varieties with cut leaves or laciniate forms the following cases may be quoted.

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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.

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It occurs with abortive, deformed, or tubular and laciniate rays.

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