fimbriate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), from fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix).

adj

  1. (biology) Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.
    the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube

verb

  1. (transitive) To fringe; to hem.

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