Laciniate

a. Bot. and Zool. Also 9 erron. lacinate. [f. prec. + -ATE².] Cut into deep and narrow irregular segments; jagged, slashed.

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1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. v. (1765), 179. Laciniate, jagged; when they are variously divided into Parts, and those Parts in like manner indeterminately subdivided.

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1794. Martyn, trans. Rousseau’s Bot., xxiv. 337. Five or six lobes, laciniate on their edges.

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1816. T. Brown, Elem. Conchol., 154. Lacinate.

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1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1202/1. Having the branches … finely laciniate.

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1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 800. Phasianella … Body margined by a laciniate membrane.

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1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 16. Chelidonium majus … A variety occurs in cultivation with laciniate petals.

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b. Comb., as laciniate-leaved; also in pseudo-L. combining form, laciniato-denticulate, -palmate.

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1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 322. Lamellæ crowded … laciniato-denticulate. Ibid., 543. Fronds stout, multifid, laciniato-palmate.

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1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 174. The ‘Cut-leaved Elder,’ a laciniate-leaved variety.

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