Definition of Fimbriated

1. a. Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

Definition of Fimbriated

1. Adjective. (heraldry) Having a narrow borderline of another tincture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fimbriated

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fimbriated

filum
filum durae matris spinalis
filum of spinal dura mater
filum terminale
fimble
fimble hemp
fimbles
fimbria
fimbria hippocampi
fimbria ovarica
fimbriae
fimbriae of uterine tube
fimbriae tubae uterinae
fimbrial
fimbriate
fimbriated (current term)
fimbriated fold
fimbriating
fimbriation
fimbriations
fimbricate
fimbriectomy
fimbrin
fimbrins
fimbriocele
fimbriodentate sulcus
fimbrioplasty
fimbriæ
fimetic
fimicolous

Literary usage of Fimbriated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1848)
"Mantle open and fimbriated at the margin. Foot digitiform or triangular. ... Siphons unequal, partly united and divergent, with fimbriated apertures. ..."

2. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1867)
"Cross pointed. with itself, is " fimbriated," such a border being a "fimbria- tion :" thus, No. 89, Az., a cross gu., fimbriated arg., ..."

3. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"In the first glass the blood had a thick, strong, indented, buff, and a fimbriated edge ; in the second the buff was sensibly less, and the other ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1891)
"fimbriated Hymen.—Instead of having the usual smooth border, the hymeneal opening may be surrounded by a well-marked fringe, the so-called hymen fimbriatus ..."

5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"... and springing from the perigone-lobe, a little above the insertion of the filament, is a fleshy scale, fimbriated or 6-8-cleft nearly or almost entirely ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Fimbriated on Dictionary.com!Search for Fimbriated on Thesaurus.com!Search for Fimbriated on Google!Search for Fimbriated on Wikipedia!

Search