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单词 rimate
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rimateadj.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪmeɪt/, U.S. /ˈraɪˌmeɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rīma , -ate suffix2.
Etymology: < classical Latin rīma (see rima n.) + -ate suffix2.
Chiefly Zoology.
Of the nature of a fissure or cleft; cleft-like; cf. rimiform adj. Also: having a long, narrow aperture, cleft, or groove.
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1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 123 Umbilicus narrow (rimate), lined by a thin callus.
1868 R. T. Lowe Man. Flora Madeira I. 294 Fr[uit]..often subtruncate at top and always sphinctrally rimate with an irregular deep transverse closed or narrow sinuous umbilical groove or cleft with tumid sphinctral knuckle-like or puckered coarsely ribbed or plaited lips.
?1891 Proc. Amer. Soc. Microscopists 1890 12 172 Ventral margin of shell [of an entomostracan crustacean] rounding, rimate, sparsely fringed, with setæ longest above.
1914 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 40 37 The rimate tympanum of the cephalic tibiae readily separates the Tylopsiae from the present group.
1927 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 53 2 Cephalic tibiae with dorsal surface armed only externally with a distal and meso-distal spine; foramina rimate.
1944 Jrnl. Paleontol. 18 103/2 Shell narrowly rimate, subovate in form, having its spire slightly higher than the body whorl.
1996 Invertebr. Biol. 115 125/2 Küster's Latin description..indicated a small, narrowly rimate, ovate-conic shell with deep sutures and eroded apex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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