la·cin·i·ate

(lə-sĭn′ē-ĭt, -āt′)

adj.

1. Having a fringe; fringed.

2. Shaped or formed like a fringe, as a ligament.

3. Slashed into narrow pointed lobes: a laciniate leaf.

[Latin lacinia, fringe, hem + -ate.]

la·cin′i·a′tion n.

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laciniate

(ləˈsɪnɪˌeɪt; -ɪt) or

laciniated

adj

1. (Biology) biology jagged: a laciniate leaf.

2. having a fringe

[C17: from Latin lacinia flap]

laˌciniˈation n

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Adj.

laciniate - having edges irregularly and finely slashed; "a laciniate leaf"

fringed

rough - of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

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pulchella in the virtual abscence of stinging trichomes, deeply serrate to laciniate petal margins (entire in C.

THE GENERIC AFFINITY OF C AIOPHORA PULCHELLA (LOASACEAE, LOASOIDEAE)

It had not occurred to me that my riven attention might be visible in my face, or even that someone would look closely at my face, which has been cragged and laciniate since I was a boy.

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The calyx is campanulate and laciniate, with a 19.12 [+ or -] 1.77 mm long corolla (n = 62), white to vinaceous, campanulate-stellate, with reflexed lanceolate lobes (Figure 4B and C).

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Accessory head to its lower and inner part of soleus usually ending in the tendocalcaneus, or the calcaneus, or the laciniate ligament has been documented by Hamilton WJ.

Study of accessory soleus--an anatomical and clinical insight

2 mm in diameter, blades spreading-recurved, white, margins laciniate, ovary 4-5 mm long, ca.

Studies on Orthophytum--Part X. Two small-sized new species

Capitulescences monocephalous, terminal; capitula sessile to short-pedunculate, homogamous, radiate; receptacle epaleate; involucre multiseriate, six- to ten-seriate, phyllaries acute or with showy, orbicular to spatulate, laciniate apical appendages.

The subfamily Mutisioideae (Asteraceae)