Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked with fine lines.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology and botany, marked with fine or obscure lines; diminutively lineate.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Marked with little lines.
- adj. botany Marked longitudinally with fine lines.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Marked with little lines.
- adj. (Bot.) Marked longitudinally with fine lines.
Etymologies
- Latin lineola, diminutive of linea line. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin līneolātus, from Latin līneola, diminutive of līnea, thread, line; see line1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Grain is globose reddish brown, minutely and obscurely lineolate.”
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phrontistery - l
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lacis, laches, labret, labile, lability, labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, lux, luff, lour, limn and 496 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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