emarginate

English

Emarginate gills on a mushroom.

Etymology

Latin emarginare; e out + marginare to furnish with a margin, from margo margin.

Adjective

emarginate (comparative more emarginate, superlative most emarginate)

1. (botany, mycology) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point.

   In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is emarginate.

Verb

emarginate (third-person singular simple present emarginates, present participle emarginating, simple past and past participle emarginated)

1. (transitive) To take away the margin of.

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Italian

Adjective

emarginate f

1. Feminine plural form of emarginato

Noun

emarginate f

1. Plural form of emarginata

Verb

emarginate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emarginare
2. second-person plural imperative of emarginare
3. Feminine plural of emarginato

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Latin

Verb

ēmargināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmarginō