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fimbriate
[ adjective fim-bree-it, -eyt; verb fim-bree-eyt ]
adjective
- Also fimbriated. Botany, Zoology. having a border of hairs or filiform processes.
verb (used with object)
- Heraldry. to line (an ordinary) with a thin border of a different tincture.
fimbriate
/ ˈfɪmbrɪlɪt; -ˌeɪt; ˈfɪmbrɪɪt; -ˌleɪt /
adjective
- having a fringed margin, as some petals, antennae, etc
Derived Forms
- ˌھˈپDz, noun
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·ھ··ٱ adjective
- ԴDz·ھ··· adjective
- ܲ·ھ··· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of fimbriate1
Example Sentences
Flowers large, solitary on long terminal peduncles, mostly 4-merous; corolla campanulate-funnel-form, its lobes usually fimbriate or erose, not crowned; a row of glands between the bases of the filaments.
In heraldry, “fimbriate” or “fimbriated” refers to a narrow edge or border running round a bearing.
Pileus is quite thin, spongy, fleshy, then dry; plane, hairy-tomentose, ferruginous, then blackish-brown; margin fibrous, fimbriate, internally loose and parallel, fibrous.
The gills are close, free, narrow, white, then grayish white, the edge finely toothed or fimbriate.
Glumes four, second glume broadly fimbriate with hairs; palea of the third glume short and deeply cleft, fourth glume awned 7.
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