a. [Erroneous var. of FIMBRIATE a., perh. due to association with imbricate.] = FIMBRIATE a.
1846. Worcester (citing Penny Cycl.), Fimbricate (Bot.), fringed; jagged.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Fimbricate.
Hence Fimbricated a.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 154/1. When kept in an aquarium, the oyster is observed to lie with its shell slightly apart, and by means of the ciliary organs or fimbricated margin of its beard, to create a continuous current of water, which thus brings within its reach the nutritive particles of which it stands in need, as well as to pass excrementitious matter, like other molluscous animals.
