Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a somewhat wavy margin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, wavy or wavy-margined; tending to be sinuate, but less uneven; undulate: said chiefly of leaves and leafmargins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zool.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, zoology Having a slightly undulating margin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a slightly undulating margin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes."
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"Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes."
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The = pileus = is convex, the disk expanded, and the margin incurved and more or less wavy or repand on the extreme edge.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The margin is often wavy or repand, and in irregular forms it is only produced at one side, or more at one side than at the other, or the cap is irregularly lobed.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = pileus = is first umbilicate or depressed, becoming depressed or infundibuliform, irregular, eccentric, the margin repand, and sometimes lobed, and lobes appearing at times on the upper surface of the cap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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“Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes.”
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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Cataract River which in its appearance when divested of its folage, much resembles the white ash; the appearance of the wood and bark is also that of the ash. it's Stem is Simple branching and diffuse. the lief is petiolate, plane, scattered palmate lobate, divided by four deep Sinusus; the lobes are repand or terminate in from 3 to 5 accute angular points, while their margins are indented with irregular and
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Ou loin des doux raions que repand l'oeil du monde
Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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There is a tree common to the Columbia river below the enterance of cataract River which in it's appearance when divested of it's folage, much resembles the white ash; the appearance of the wood and bark is also that of the ash. it's stem is simple. branching and diffuse. the lief is petiolate, plane, scattered palmate lobate, divided by four deep sinusus; the lobes are repand or terminate in from 3 to 5 accute angular points, while their margins are indented with irregular and somewhat circular incissures. the petiole is celindric smoth and 7 inches long. the leaf 8 inches in length and 12 in bredth. this tree is frequently
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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