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Laciniated

Laciniate \La*cin"i*ate\, Laciniated \La*cin"i*a"ted\, a. [See Lacinia.]

  1. Fringed; having a fringed border.

  2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

Usage examples of "laciniated".

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens.