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prettygoodwordfimbriate (FIM-bree-ayt) - adj., fringed; having a border of hairs or the like.
Primary uses are in science and medicine, such as the fimbriate petals of certain pinks, or the end of the fallopian tube. Also fimbriated. Also, in heraldry, as a verb, to line with a border of another color. In use since the late 1400s, adopted from Latin fimbriātus, fringed, from fimbria, threads.
---L.
Primary uses are in science and medicine, such as the fimbriate petals of certain pinks, or the end of the fallopian tube. Also fimbriated. Also, in heraldry, as a verb, to line with a border of another color. In use since the late 1400s, adopted from Latin fimbriātus, fringed, from fimbria, threads.
---L.
