fimbriated, ppl. a.
(ˈfɪmbrɪeɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. Her. Of a bearing: Bordered with a narrow band or edge. b. gen. Having a fringe; fringed. Chiefly in scientific applications, as Anat., Bot., Zool.
| a. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. D j a, Thys cros fimbriatit or borderit. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 174 He beareth B on a crosse Gewles fimbriated or bordured Argent. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vii. (1611) 73 In the crosse fimbriated the edges thereof doe occupie the least portion therof. 1864 Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xxi. §1 (ed. 3) 356 A pall of the last, fimbriated and fringed gold. |
| b. 1698 J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 405 A Calyx whose Divisions are fimbriated. 1752 Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 153 The small, flatted, and, as it were, fimbriated Porcellana. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 401 The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tubes. 1862 Darwin Fertil. Orchids vi. 283 The labellum is covered with longitudinal and fimbriated ridges. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 154 Tentacles, which may be slender and conical, or short, broad and fimbriated. |