Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a shallow notch at the tip, as in some petals and leaves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove the margin of; deprive of margin.
  • Having the margin or extremity taken away.
  • To render visible or conspicuous the boundary or margin of (something); specifically, to bring out clearly the outlines of (objects under the microscope) by adjustment of the focus and lighting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To take away the margin of.
  • adjective Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
  • adjective (Bot.) Notched at the summit.
  • adjective (Cryst.) Having the edges truncated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany, mycology Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point.
  • verb transitive To take away the margin of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a notched tip

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin ēmarginātus, past participle of ēmargināre, to take the edge away : ē-, ex-, ex- + margō, margin-, margin; see merg- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin emarginare; e out + marginare to furnish with a margin, from margo margin.

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Examples

  • The _second glume_ is the longest, linear-lanceolate, rigid, tip obtuse or emarginate, slightly convex with

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • +Gills+ slightly emarginate, almost adnate, somewhat crowded, about 3 inches broad, wholly white when young, at length reddish.

    Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

  • The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _first glume_ is coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, truncate or emarginate, slightly hairy, or glabrous with a deep pit above the middle (sometimes with two or three pits also) 7 - to 9-nerved with a few long hairs below the middle and with margins infolded and shortly ciliate.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The second glume is linear-lanceolate, rigid, empty, persistent recurved when old, tip obtuse or emarginate.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • Cordate: heart-shaped; triangular, with the corners of the base rounded: not necessarily emarginate at the middle of base.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Arcuato-emarginate: with a bow-like or curved excision.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Biemarginate: twice emarginate; with two excisions.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • The _first glume_ is very small, membranous, glabrous, broader than long, cordate or triangular, broadly but shallowly emarginate, nerveless or very obscurely 1 - to

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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