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limbate

[lim-beyt]

adjective Botany, Zoology.

bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

Origin:
1820–30; < Late Latin limbātus bordered, edged. See limb², -ate¹

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limbate (ˈlɪmbeɪt)

—*adj*
	biology having an edge or border of a different colour from the rest: limbate flowers

[C19: from Late Latin limbātus bordered, from limbus]

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