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

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 Vries, Hugo de

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

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 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

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