Sekirov Dictionary

emarginate

adjective 4
verb 3
forms 5

adjective4

With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
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Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
- In the Haliotus, Lam, the shell is perforated along the side of the columella with a series of holes; and when the last hole remains incomplete, the shell has the appearance of beiing emarginate. — 1840
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Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is emarginate.
Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.

verb3

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To take away the margin of.
- a radial depression extends from the beak to the anterior ventral margin, which it slightly emarginates — 1926
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To lose the margin.
- The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's. — 1986
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To marginalize.
- Hegel ignores, represses, and emarginates these factors in order to found his logic on a dialectic conceived as the appropriation of the other, rather than a becoming other (Anderswerden). — 1992

forms

emarginated · emarginating · emarginates · more emarginate · most emarginate

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