marginatedadj.
/ˈmɑːdʒɪneɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈmɑrdʒɪneɪdᵻd/ 1. Botany, Zoology, and Medicine. Having a distinct margin, border, or edge.In English names of animals and plants often corresponding to scientific Latin specific epithet marginatus.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > margin or periphery
peripherial1653
peripherical1690
marginated1727
submarginated1752
submargined1783
margineda1794
marginal1796
submarginal1800
peripheral1808
peripheric1818
marginate1822
limbate1826
bipectinated1836
submarginate1856
marginiform1857
bipectinate1870
limbic1882
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > having an edge or border
bordered1509
brerded1535
rimmed1608
pretexted1647
labrous1656
labrose1727
marginated1727
selvaged1750
marginate1777
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Marginated.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Lycoperdon The smooth, oblong and inwardly marginated lycoperdon.
1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Plants N. Amer. in tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana II. 30 Viburnum, marginated.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 145 The marginated water-beetle.
1839 G. B. Sowerby Conchol. Man. 62 Marginated, having an edge or border thicker than the rest of the shell.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 53 Golden Hamburgh fowls..of barred or marginated markings.
1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xiii. 111 The common and classic type [of tinea cruris] produced by the E[pidermophyton] floccosum is characterized by an elevated, papular, sharply-marginated, erythematous and scaly patch.
1982 Macdonald Encycl. Shells No. 140 Bernaya marginata, Marginated Cowrie.
1995 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 164 317 Lipid cysts are seen sonographically as smoothly marginated anechoic or hypoechoic nodules.
2. Biology and Medicine. Having undergone or exhibiting margination (margination n. 3).
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1950 Jrnl. Immunol. 65 124 All of the cells with an inclusion showed such marginated chromatin.
1971 Nature 10 Sept. 105/2 Occasional perichromatin granules were noted, very close to a thin rim of marginated heterochromatin.
1989 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 321 924 The capillary bed of the lungs concentrates neutrophils.., producing a large pool of marginated cells.
1991 Jrnl. Clin. Pathol. 44 509 In follicular carcinoma the percentage of marginated nucleoli—that is, those touching the nuclear membrane—was, in general, greater than 20%.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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