Fimbriate a.

[ad. L. fimbriāt-us fringed: see -ATE².] a. Her. = FIMBRIATED. b. Bot. and Zool. Fringed; bordered with hairs or filiform processes.

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1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants, 33. Eleusine.… Scales truncate, fimbriate.

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1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 666. Tentacles long fimbriate.

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1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 50. Dianthus plumarius … petals fimbriate.

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1870. G. Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life, 59. The junction of the fimbriate with the non-fimbriate portion of the mantle.

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