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A fringe, or fringed border.

the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

(Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain. -- Saint George's ensign, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the distinguishing badge of ships of the royal navy of…

valves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.