Definition of Laciniation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laciniation

lachrymosities
lachrymosity
lacier
laciest
lacily
laciness
lacinesses
lacing
lacings
lacinia
laciniae
laciniae tubae
laciniate
laciniate ligament
laciniated
laciniation (current term)
laciniations
laciniolate
lacinula
lacinulae
lacis cell
lack
lack-lustre
lackadaisical
lackadaisically
lackadaisicalness
lackadaisy
lackaday
lackbrain
lackbrains

Literary usage of Laciniation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Many of the garden varieties of today exhibit more or less laciniation, so that it is probable that "Parrot" strains might be developed from them by simple ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Besides, many of our garden varieties of to-day exhibit more or less laciniation, so that it is probable that "Parrot" strains might be developed from them ..."

3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1904)
"In some cases the primary divisions of the innermost bracts are not very deep, and oftentimes the laciniation seems to be even better marked on unfer- 1 ..."

4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"... except in one species : annuals, with neither foliage nor calyx-lobes rigid or spinescent ; the leaves sessile and entire (except some laciniation in G. ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... the former generally of a roundish form, the latter characterized by the greater elongation and laciniation of the fruit- cup. ..."

6. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"There are, again, all degrees of laciniation of leaf, and, as in the case of the Japanese maples, the cut-leaf usually accompanies ..."

7. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"Frequently this irregular diminution in proportion is coexistent with an unusual degree of cleavage or laciniation of the margin, as in Acer platanoides ..."

8. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"The pectoral, second dorsal, and anal fins are absolutely hyaline—a condition which conspires with the general scheme of colouration and laciniation to ..."

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