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fimbriate

adjective

(L. fimbriatus: fringed) Cut into regular segments and appearing fringed at the margins, usually with hairs or hair-like structures (fimbrillae) along the margin; fringed, generally with radiating cell walls of partly eroded marginal cells; e.g. the stem leaf apices of Sphagnum fimbriatum. Cf. laciniate.