laciniate

[ luh-sin-ee-eyt, -it ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.

laciniate

/ -ɪt; ləˈsɪnɪˌeɪt /

adjective

1. biology jagged

   a laciniate leaf

2. having a fringe

Derived Forms

• laˌciniˈation, noun

Other Words From

• multi·la·cini·ate adjective
• subla·cini·ate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate¹

1750–60; < New Latin lacin ( ia ) (special use of Latin lacinia lappet) + -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of laciniate¹

C17: from Latin lacinia flap

Example Sentences

It occurs with abortive, deformed, or tubular and laciniate rays.

From Project Gutenberg

Peridium thin, not uniform, presently breaking up into laciniate scales; at first yellow, then bluish-ashen; when empty, white.

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From Korshinsky's survey of varieties with cut leaves or laciniate forms the following cases may be quoted.

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Coarse perennial or biennial herbs, often resinous-viscid, ours glabrous and leafy with sessile or clasping alternate and spinulose-serrate or laciniate rigid leaves, and large heads terminating leafy branches.

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Scape 1–2° high; leaves linear to lanceolate, entire to dentate or laciniate; head often pubescent or villous; achene long-beaked.—Minn. to Neb. and southwestward.

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