ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] a. Her. Of a bearing: Bordered with a narrow band or edge. b. gen. Having a fringe; fringed. Chiefly in scientific applications, as Anat., Bot., Zool.
a. 1486. Bk. St. Albans, Her., D j a. Thys cros fimbriatit or borderit.
1586. J. Ferne, The Blazon of Gentrie, 174. He beareth B on a crosse Gewles, fimbriated or bordured Argent.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. vii. (1611), 73. In the crosse fimbriated the edges thereof doe occupie the least portion therof.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xxi. § 1 (ed. 3), 96. Surmounted by a pall of the last, fimbriated and fringed gold.
b. 1698. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XX. 405. A Calyx whose Divisions are fimbriated.
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 153 The small, flatted, and, as it were, fimbriated Porcellana.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 401. It is not unusual to find the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tubes adhering to the ovaria.
1862. Darwin, Fertil. Orchids, vi. 283. The labellum is covered with longitudinal and fimbriated ridges.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., iii. 153–4. The mouth is always surrounded by one or more circlets of tentacles, which may be slender and conical, or short, broad and fimbriated.
