Pl. laciniæ. [L. = lappet.]
1. Bot. A slash in a leaf, petal, etc.; the slender lobe thus produced.
1699. Phil. Trans., XXI. 65. Their … Leaves are … divided into narrower and deeper Laciniae or Jags.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xii. (1765), 27. The Variations of the Corolla in respect to Number concern either Petals, or Laciniæ, Segments.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 190. Five nerves … continued through the axes of the laciniæ.
1880. C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 191. Flowers … white, with rose-coloured laciniæ.
2. Ent. The apex of the maxilla, esp. when slender.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 446. Slender laciniæ or lappets fringed with hairs.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 161. Proboscis short, with … sulcated lacinia.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 402. The galea and lacinia of the maxilla.
