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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Scape 1–2° high; leaves linear to lanceolate, entire to dentate or laciniate; head often pubescent or villous; achene long-beaked.—Minn. to Neb. and southwestward.
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
Creeping, flexuous; leaves round-elliptic, entire, ascending; underleaves broadly subulate, not apparent on old stems; involucral leaves large, elongated, the inner smaller and more or less laciniate; perianth oval-obovate, ascending.—On the ground and rotten logs; common.
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
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
P. campan. exp. umb. silky fibrillose, whitish brown, disc darker, dry; g. crowded, near to stem, subventricose; s. rather shining, whitish, base thickened; volva mostly adherent, laciniate, brownish.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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
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