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laciniate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective laciniate has 1 sense
- laciniate(s = adj.all) fringed - having edges irregularly and finely slashed; "a laciniate leaf"
CIDE DICTIONARY
laciniate, a. [See Lacinia.].
- Fringed; having a fringed border. [1913 Webster]
- Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
laciniate, adj. (also laciniated) Bot. & Zool. divided into deep narrow irregular segments; fringed.
Derivative
laciniation n.
Etymology
L lacinia flap of a garment
ROGET THESAURUS
laciniate
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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