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Definition of Laciniate
1. Adjective. Having edges irregularly and finely slashed. "A laciniate leaf"
Definition of Laciniate
1. a. Fringed; having a fringed border.
Definition of Laciniate
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or having a fringe. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany zoology) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laciniate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Laciniate
1. Slashed into narrow, pointed lobes. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laciniate
Literary usage of Laciniate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... broad : its bracts lanceolate: akènes more villous : awns as long as the alme
and chaffy-dilated only near the base; the palcic much laciniate. — Bull. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The laciniate ligament is a strong fibrous band, extending from the tibial
malleolus above to the margin of the calcaneus below, converting a series of bony ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Leaves oblong, or broadly lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the
base, petioled, sharply serrate with somewhat spreading teeth, or laciniate, ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1899)
"Forming gelatinous, laciniate and anastomosing masses, several cm. long, attached
to other plants. Cells more oval than in E. gelatinosa Wille ; the cell ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"laciniate (torn), divided by deep and irregular gashes. 10. Crisped, margin much
expanded and curled by a superabundance of tissue, as in the mallows. 11. ..."
6. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... with the teeth of the external peristome and often separated by 1 to 3 filiform
articulate or more rarely transversely laciniate or appendiculate cilia. ..."
7. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"Occasionally, its tendon is lost in the laciniate ligament, or in the fascia of
the leg. Nerves.—The Gastrocnemius and Soleus are supplied by the first and ..."
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