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Marginate   [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

Synonym: Marginated, Bordered
Noun:
Margination  
     
  Having a well-defined border or margin of distinctive appearance, colour, pattern or structure.  
     
[From Latin “marginates” p.p. of “marginare” = to margin.]


A “marginate” structure is recognizable by a distinctive edge clearly differently than its face as a a ridge or groove, an edge of distinctive colour or pattern or a fringed, frilled or closely cut character.

Left: A nice cultivar of   Sanseveria with marginate leaf.
 
     
To marginate   [ Transitive verb ]
Synonym: To border
(
past and past participle Marginated, present participle Marginating, 3rd person present singular Marginates) 
     
  To add a well-defined margin to something, To provide with or be a margin to a structure.  
     

 

 

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