lacinulan.
/ləˈsɪnjᵿlə/, U.S. /ləˈsɪnjələ/ Botany.
A small lacinia; a segment or subdivision of a lacinia.
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1779 J. Miller Illustr. Sexual Syst. Linnæus I. 12 The Lacinias bifid..: the Lacinulas lanceolate, separated from the obovate lacinias, fimbricate.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 120 In Umbelliferæ the petal is abruptly acuminate; and the acumen in inflexed. The latter is named the lacinula.
1885 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1884–5 20 263 There are indications that, in separating, a minute lacinula of the style is sometimes carried away, as in most of the European species.
1955 Bryologist 58 205 Stephani..described the ventral lobe of the female bract as lanceolate, canaliculate, and entire, its lower enlarged part with a lacinula.
1993 Willdenowia 23 312 (caption) Note the strongly striate lower side and the dactyloid lacinulae at lobe tips.
2010 Micron 41 867/1 It is a saxicolous species that produces typical soralia formed at the apices of small lacinulae.
Derivatives
laˈcinulate adj. [after scientific Latin lacinulatus (1740 or earlier); compare -ate suffix2] having a lacinula or lacinulae.Recorded earliest in eroso-lacinulate: see eroso- comb. form.
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1836 J. T. Mackay Flora Hibernica II. 80 Scales of the thallus minute, eroso-lacinulate, glaucous-green.
1841 W. A. Leighton Flora of Shropshire 379 Receptacle alveolate, lacinulate.
1907 M. C. Cooke Handbk. Brit. Hepaticæ 58 Perianth with the mouth lacinulate, at first constricted, at length gaping and bilabiate.
1935 Bryologist 38 86 The two species agree further in having a perianth with a lacinulate mouth.
2011 Bryologist 114 173/2 Lateral margin smooth to sinuous, occasionally lacinulate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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