Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

emarginate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: emarginate
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.

adj

Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.

adj

Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.

adj

Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.

verb

To take away the margin of.

Transitive verb

verb

To lose the margin.

Intransitive verb

verb

To marginalize.

Example Sentences

"In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is emarginate."
"1840 Georges Cuvier Cuvier's Animal kingdom (intranslation). 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."
"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."
"a radial depression extends from the beak to the anterior ventral margin, which it slightly emarginates;"
"At most, the groove emarginates only one-third the distal surface of the femur."
"The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's."

Etymology

From Latin emarginare; e- (“out”) + marginare (“to furnish with a margin”), from margo (“margin”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: emarginare

Usage

Inflected Forms

more emarginate (comparative) most emarginate (superlative) emarginates (present, singular) emarginating (participle, present) emarginated (participle, past) emarginated (past)

Derived Forms

emarginately subemarginate

Questions

What does emarginate mean?: With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
Where does emarginate come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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