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Definition of Emarginate
1. Adjective. Having a notched tip.
Definition of Emarginate
1. v. t. To take away the margin of.
2. a. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
Definition of Emarginate
1. Adjective. (context: botany mycology) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emarginate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Emarginate
1. Having a broad, shallow notch at the top. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emarginate
Literary usage of Emarginate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"Procumbent, hirsute ; leaves subulate, ciliate ; corymbs few flowered; segments
of the corolla cuneate, emarginate; teeth of the calyx subulate, ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... winged or wingless, truncate or emarginate at summit, bearing -2, rarely .
... Akènes uval or oblong, truncate or emarginate, some of them usually ..."
3. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"Oblong, glossy : head black, with an oblong spot of a ferruginous colour before
the eyes ; the clypeus not emarginate in front, and bearing three tubercles ..."
4. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Ovary simple, superior, 1- seeded; styles 1 or 2, emarginate at the apex. Fruit a
membranous utricle, enclosed within the hardened calyx. ..."
5. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"... emarginate : spikes solitary or in pairs, axillary, usually on a former year's
shoots from which the leaves have fallen, sometimes on the young shoots ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... Sepal» lance-oblong, rather obtuse, often slightly emarginate ... emarginate,
about twice as long as the sepal«. Stamens as long as the sepals. ..."
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