Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
emarginate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the
margin interrupted by anotch or shallowsinus . - adjective
Notched at thesummit . - adjective crystallography Having the
edges truncated .
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Examples
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Description size: 3 - 4.5 mm shape: mote or less triangular colour: pale brown with blackish patches on the elytra recognition: body clothed in short hairs; last abdominal segment visible; antennae slightly serrated: each hind femur bears a tooth; large emarginated eyes
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The _laevifolia_ petals become smaller and are often not emarginated at the apex, becoming ovate [529] instead of obcordate.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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-- "It differs from the last in being rather smaller, and of a brown colour above, much paler at the base of the hairs and at their extreme tips, and lighter coloured below; the ears more apiculated, or rather they appear so from being strongly emarginated externally towards the tip."
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Ear large, erect and pointed, rounded at the base and emarginated on the outer edge; nasal process complicated.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- Above bright red ferruginous brown; tips of hair darker, paler beneath; ears pointed and external; edge deeply emarginated; internal edge and basal third of external surface hairy; anti-helix well developed; nasal process apparently very similar to that of _R. mitratus_ (_Kellaart_).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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It is, as to it's main part, the Plan and Declara - tion of 1797. 1st. emarginated as to so much as pro - jected beyond the water edge.
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Pope Benedict lauded himself for the respect and solidarity he gives to the minority groups, the emarginated and religious believers of other denominations while at the same juncture he was encouraging the Maltese majority to continue with its ongoing suppressive attitude towards the minorities.
timesofmalta.com 2010
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Pope Benedict lauded himself for the respect and solidarity he gives to the minority groups, the emarginated and religious believers of other denominations while at the same juncture he was encouraging the Maltese majority to continue with its ongoing suppressive attitude towards the minorities.
timesofmalta.com 2010
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Carnival liberates and empowers those who feel emarginated by 'conventional society'.
timesofmalta.com 2009
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Carnival liberates and empowers those who feel emarginated by 'conventional society'.
timesofmalta.com 2009
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