laciniate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   botany and zoology: cut into a fringe or into deep, narrow, irregular lobes

   The botanist recognized the species by its deeply laciniate leaves.

From Latin lacinia, 'a flap, fringe, or torn strip of cloth,' plus the adjective-forming suffix -ate. Naturalists applied it to leaves and other structures whose margins look irregularly cut into strips.

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