laciniateadj.
/ləˈsɪnɪət/, U.S. /ləˈsɪniət/, /ləˈsɪniˌeɪt/ Chiefly Botany.
Of the margin of a part of a plant or animal, esp. a leaf or petal: divided into (typically narrow and irregular) segments or lobes; jagged; fringed. Also: having such a margin; having such parts.See also multilaciniate adj. at multi- comb. form 1a.
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laciniated1657
incisory1693
lacerated1709
crenelled1727
emarginated1731
laciniate1760
lacerate1776
crenate1785
crenulate1785
emarginate1785
erose1793
crenulated1807
incised1826
fimbricate1846
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 175 Laciniate, jagged; when they are variously divided into Parts, and those Parts in like manner indeterminately subdivided.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiv. 341 Five or six lobes, laciniate on their edges.
1856 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 800 Body [of the gasteropod mollusc Phasianella] margined by a laciniate membrane.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 16 Chelidonium majus..A variety occurs in cultivation with laciniate petals.
1916 Florists' Exchange 22 Apr. 1011/1 This one, [Acer] Japonicum laciniatum, has bright green foliage..; and its deeply laciniate leaves add to its attraction.
1982 Kew Bull. 36 738 Its less coriaceous leaves and larger, more laciniate, much less coriaceous and less pubescent floral bracts and calyx lobes.
2010 Novon 20 471/1 The persistent interpetiolar stipules that are fused to the bases of the adjacent petioles and are often setose or laciniate.
Compounds
C1. In combination with other adjectives, with the senses ‘laciniate and ——’, ‘laciniately ——’.
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1810 W. Roxburgh in Asiatick Researches 11 350 With the margin elegantly laciniate-dentate.
1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 214 Flowers 7 lines long; the lower rather distant, in the axils of green and foliaceous laciniate-pinnatifid bracts.
1912 Mycologia 4 134 Thallus irregularly and more or less imbricately laciniate-lobate.
1967 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 253 121 Tepals laciniate-dentate, more or less joined.
2004 Bryologist 107 80/1 In middle of shoot three rather large ones [sc. amphigastria] consecutively developed, half of leaf length, lanceolate-ovate, irregularly laciniate-spinose.
C2. Parasynthetic, esp. in laciniate-leaved.
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1851 Rural Cycl. III. 350/1 Three varieties of it [sc. Acer platanoides] are in cultivation,—the laciniate-leaved, A. p. laciniatum..; the variegated..; and Lobel's maple.
1910 Bot. Gaz. 50 270 Another common illustration is provided by the laciniate-leaved varieties of the sumach.
1964 Brittonia 20 344 Receptacle convex, naked but for the shallow, laciniate margined sockets.
1973 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 63 312/2 (note) Subspecies asiatica [of Lagenaria siceraria] has leaves rounded-lobed or laciniate-lobed.
2005 Taxon 54 167/1 It is a homogeneous group that would be natural except for the exclusion of the laciniate-leaved species.
Derivatives
laˈciniately adv.
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1818 Bot. Reg. 4 No. 294 Leaves..hirsute, ovately oblong, lobedly and laciniately dissected, acuminated.
1905 W. R. Linton Acct. Brit. Hieracia 52 Stem-leaf broad to narrow-lanceolate, sharply or laciniately toothed, rarely subentire.
2002 Castanea 67 373 Stipules lanceolate to narrowly deltate, laciniately fringed throughout.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1760