Emarginate

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.

    "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."

  4. 4
    Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having a notched tip wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To take away the margin of. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    To lose the margin. intransitive

    "The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's."

  3. 3
    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)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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