emarginate
Americanadjective
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notched at the margin.
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Botany. notched at the apex, as a petal or leaf.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of emarginate
1785–95; < Latin ēmarginātus deprived of its edge, equivalent to ē- e- 1 + margin- ( see margin) + ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Bill long as head, lamellæ exposed along projecting edge of upper mandible; tail of sixteen feathers, short and rounded; hind toe very small, outer shorter than third, centre rather long; interdigital membrane emarginate.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
Their ectocyst is stiff; they are emarginate at the tip and more or less distinctly furrowed on the dorsal surface, the keel in which the furrow runs not being prominent.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
Shell elongated, cream colour, with green and yellow bands; aperture ovately rounded, white; outer lip notched in the middle; base emarginate.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
Involucral leaves few, smaller than the semi-vertical emarginate stem-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 Asa Gray
Wings long; first primary so small as at first sight to seem wanting, second longest but third nearly its equal, fourth decidedly shorter, outer secondaries short and emarginate at tip.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
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