Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked with fine lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and botany, marked with fine or obscure lines; diminutively lineate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Marked with little lines.
- adjective (Bot.) Marked longitudinally with fine lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Marked with little
lines . - adjective botany Marked longitudinally with fine lines.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin līneolātus, from Latin līneola, diminutive of līnea, thread, line; see line.]
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Latin lineola, diminutive of linea line.
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Examples
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Grain is globose reddish brown, minutely and obscurely lineolate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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