laciniatedadj.
/ləˈsɪnɪeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ləˈsɪniˌeɪdᵻd/ 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; having such a margin or such parts; = laciniate adj.
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laciniated1657
incisory1693
lacerated1709
crenelled1727
emarginated1731
laciniate1760
lacerate1776
crenate1785
crenulate1785
emarginate1785
erose1793
crenulated1807
incised1826
fimbricate1846
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Aaa3v It [sc. Scabiose] beares long, broad, hirsute, and laciniated [L. laciniata] leafes, incided like Rocket.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 118 That [Aspin] whose leaves are laciniated.
1735 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 465 A Bank of Vapours, not curved at Top..but lacinated, or broken.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. iii. 124 (heading) The subulated, echinated, and laciniated Cochlea.
1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 16 With many-cleft laciniated pencil-form lobes.
1850 Beck's Florist 189 The pinnules deeply laciniated and tufted.
1928 Garden & Home Builder Jan. 402 (advt.) He created the fringed Laciniated type.
1973 Ornithol. Monogr. No. 15. 110 In Viridonia,..the tongue is long, slender, decurved and tubular with a thickly tufted tip and laciniated edges.
2008 Taxon 57 917/2 Individual lobes often deeply divided, elongated, laciniated and revolute.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1657