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Meanings of laciniate in English

Having edges irregularly and finely slashed.

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        Examples for "fringed"
        1
        The basin in which the Crisis lay was entirely fringed with forest.
        Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale
        2
        Preferably the French sun, warming the morning croissants on some lavender-fringed terrace.
        The Irish Times
        3
        First is that his beautiful, floppy-fringed haircuts cost more than your car.
        Wired
        4
        Tufts of fringed silk were dotted in clusters and made into fly-fringe.
        Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
        5
        She spread a fringed towel over the barren top of the dresser.
        Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
        Usage of laciniate in English
        1
        Several varieties are cultivated as ornamental plants on account of their beautifully coloured, frizzled and laciniated leaves.
        Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" ...
        2
        In the purple-filbert the husk is purple, and in the frizzled-filbert it is curiously laciniated; in the red-filbert the pellicle of the kernel is red.
        The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...