fimbriated

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  1. Fringed. Specifically— In zoology and botany, same as fimbriate, 1. In couch., an epithet applied to many of the murices or whelks having thin, elevated, fin-like processes on their shells, and to some cyclostomous land-shells which have like processes round the aperture. In ornithology, applied to the toes of birds which have marginal fringes or lobes, as those of the coot, grebe, and phalarope, or a series of small horny processes, as those of grouse. In anatomy, applied (1) to the fringed extremity of the Fallopian tube, or oviduct of Mammalia, especially of the human female; (2) to the fimbriæ of the brain.
  2. In heraldry: Bordered or edged with a narrow band on all sides. Thus, a bend fimbriated or has the narrow gold edge at each end and running along the outline of the escutcheon as well as along the sides of the bend.
  3. Less properly, edged along one side only, as the St. Patrick's saltier in the British union jack. Also fimbriate and edged. The Union Flag shall be Azure, the Crosses Saltire of St. Andrew and St. Patrick quarterly per Saltire, counter-charged, argent and gules, the latter fimbriated of the second, surmounted by the Cross of St. George of the third, fimbriated as the Saltire. Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 486.
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