fimbriate

[fim-bree-it, -eyt, fim-bree-eyt]

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adjective

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

verb (used with object)

fimbriated, fimbriating

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

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Other Word Forms

nonfimbriate adjective
nonfimbriated adjective
unfimbriated adjective
ˌ�ھ��ˈ��پ��ǲ� noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fimbriate¹

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

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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.

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In heraldry, “fimbriate” or “fimbriated” refers to a narrow edge or border running round a bearing.

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Pileus is quite thin, spongy, fleshy, then dry; plane, hairy-tomentose, ferruginous, then blackish-brown; margin fibrous, fimbriate, internally loose and parallel, fibrous.

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The gills are close, free, narrow, white, then grayish white, the edge finely toothed or fimbriate.

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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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fimbria fimbriation

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