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What is the adjective for fimbriate?

What's the adjective for fimbriate? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb fimbriate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fimbriated
  1. Having a fringed border.
  2. (botany) Bordered with hair or hair-like material.
  3. (heraldry) Having a narrow borderline of another tincture.
  4. Examples:
    1. “We wondered whether fimbriated strains have a different adherence from related nonfimbriated strains.”
      “The most common hymenal configurations are crescentic, annular, cuff-like, septate and fimbriated.”
      “The ovum on leaving the ovary is received by the fimbriated extremity of the fallopian tube, down which it slowly travels.”
fimbricate
  1. fringed; jagged; fimbriate
  2. (zoology) Fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, like the antennae of certain insects.
fimbriate
  1. (botany) Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.
fimbriating
  1. present participle of fimbriate
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