Meaning

(medicine or literary) To cry or weep..

Definitions by Sense

1. (medicine or literary) To cry or weep.
2. (botany, paleontology) Having the shape of a tear.
3. (medicine or literary, rare) Stained or filled with tears.

Example Sentences

The cephalon shows traces of low pustules over the glabella, and upon the depressed frontal area, where they become elongate or lachrymate, sometimes anastomosing, leaving elongate depressions between them; […]

The location of the ventral muscle-scars is normal. In the dorsal valve, however, there is considerable variation, both in the shape of the scars and in their degree of depression into the shell; those of the outer pair vary between the simple lachrymate shape (Pl. V, fig. 6) and the subdivided tripartite condition such as is seen frequently in Crurithyris urei and Crurithyris magnispina.

Lateral furrow 1p situated slightly in front of mid-length, narrow and deep, directed inward and backward and reaching the occipital furrow, deepest close to axial furrow; basal lobe lachrymate in outline, moderately convex.

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The animal does not become seriously ill, but scratches itself vigorously, is either very restless or very somnolent or both alternately, hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.

Lachrymate and weeping motifs are typically present throughout all the volumes and display certain regular features, but they do not form a unilateral or monolithic image.

Word Forms

• lachrymates
• lachrymating
• lachrymated
• lacrimate
• more lachrymate
• most lachrymate

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