emarginate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin emarginare; e- (“out”) + marginare (“to furnish with a margin”), from margo (“margin”).
Adjective
[edit]emarginate (comparative more emarginate, superlative most emarginate)
- (botany, of leaves) With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
- (botany, mycology) 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.
- (zoology, anatomy) Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
- (mineralogy) Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]botany: slightly indented at the tip
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Verb
[edit]emarginate (third-person singular simple present emarginates, present participle emarginating, simple past and past participle emarginated)
- (transitive) To take away the margin of.
- 1909, William John Sinclair, Mammalia of the Santa Cruz Beds: Typotheria. I., page 156:
- The radius resembles that of Nesodon in form, but is proportionately shorter and stouter; the distal end is especially massive and the scaphoid facet emarginates the dorsal border more deeply and in a more conspicuous way.
- 1926, Julia Anna Gardner, The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, page 27:
- a radial depression extends from the beak to the anterior ventral margin, which it slightly emarginates;
- 1995, Robert A. Long, Philip A. Murry, Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States, page 180:
- At most, the groove emarginates only one-third the distal surface of the femur.
- (intransitive) To lose the margin.
- 1986, Michael J. Novacek, The Skull of Leptictid Insectivorans and the Higher-level Classification of Eutherian Mammals, page 26:
- The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's.
- 2004, M.S. Mani, Progress in Invertebrate Zoology, page 90:
- This membrane emarginates at intervals, forming pits.
- 2007, Zoological Studies - Volume 46, Issues 4-6, page 754:
- The body shape is mostly circular in stage 1, then becomes elongated, and the hindbody emarginates at later stages.
- To marginalize.
- 1992, Robert C. Holub, Crossing Borders, page 44:
- 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).
- 2000, John A. Kromkowski, Race and Ethnic Relations 2000-2001, page 151:
- Indeed, it has been argued that the theory of Anglo conformity is inherently discriminatory: it requires assimilation into a majoritarian culture and inferentially emarginates other legitimate forms of cultural expression .
- 2004, Benjamin Tonna, Gospel for the Cities: A Socio-Theology of Urban Ministry, page 54:
- The economic process, then, converges in that space and emarginates whole categories of residents from zones rendered inaccessible to them because they are beyond their financial means.
- 2011, George B. Palermo, The Faces of Violence, page 81:
- Their antisocial behavior may be a conscious or subconscious act against a system that they feel to be uncaring and oppressive, and that, in their opinion, emarginates them from the mainstream of society.
References
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]emarginate
Participle
[edit]emarginate f pl
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]emarginate f
- plural of emarginata
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]emarginate
- inflection of emarginare:
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eː.mar.ɡiˈnaː.te/, [eːmärɡɪˈnäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.mar.d͡ʒiˈna.te/, [emärd͡ʒiˈnäːt̪e]
Verb
[edit]ēmargināte
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