Meaning

(botany, of leaves) With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex..

Definitions by Sense

1. (botany, of leaves) With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
2. (botany, mycology) Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
3. (zoology, anatomy) Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
4. (mineralogy) Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
5. (transitive) To take away the margin of.
6. (intransitive) To lose the margin.
7. To marginalize.

Example Sentences

In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is emarginate.

1840 Georges Cuvier Cuvier's Animal kingdom (intranslation). In the Haliotus, Lam, the shell is perforated along the side of the columella with a series of holes; and when the last hole remains incomplete, the shell has the appearance of beiing emarginate.

The radius resembles that of Nesodon in form, but is proportionately shorter and stouter; the distal end is especially massive and the scaphoid facet emarginates the dorsal border more deeply and in a more conspicuous way.

a radial depression extends from the beak to the anterior ventral margin, which it slightly emarginates;

At most, the groove emarginates only one-third the distal surface of the femur.

The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's.

This membrane emarginates at intervals, forming pits.

The body shape is mostly circular in stage 1, then becomes elongated, and the hindbody emarginates at later stages.

Word Forms

• more emarginate
• most emarginate
• emarginates
• emarginating
• emarginated

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