fimbriate

American  

[fim-bree-it, -eyt, fim-bree-eyt] / ˈfɪm bri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈfɪm briˌeɪt /

adjective

1. Botany, Zoology. Also fimbriated. having a border of hairs or filiform processes.

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verb (used with object)

fimbriated, fimbriating

1. Heraldry. to line (an ordinary) with a thin border of a different tincture.

fimbriate British  

/ ˈfɪmbrɪlɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈfɪmbrɪɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having a fringed margin, as some petals, antennae, etc

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Other Word Forms

• fimbriation noun
• nonfimbriate adjective
• nonfimbriated adjective
• unfimbriated adjective

Etymology

Origin of fimbriate

First recorded in 1480–90, fimbriate is from the Latin word fimbriātus fringed. See fimbria, -ate ¹

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.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glumes four, second glume broadly fimbriate with hairs; palea of the third glume short and deeply cleft, fourth glume awned 7.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

P. 4-7 cm. campan. convex, broadly umb. fibrillose then squamulose, edge fimbriate, yellowish then tinged red; g. sinuate, edge fimbriate becoming spotted or tinged red; s. 4-6 cm. fibrillose, rosy, apex white and mealy; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The surface is hairy and the margin is often fimbriate with coarse hairs.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The edges of the gills are thus sometimes finely fimbriate.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis