Usually means: Notched at the tip slightly.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word emarginate:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. emarginate: Merriam-Webster
  2. emarginate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. emarginate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. emarginate: Vocabulary.com
  5. emarginate: Wordnik
  6. Emarginate: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. emarginate: Wiktionary
  8. emarginate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. emarginate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. emarginate: Dictionary.com
  11. Emarginate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Emarginate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. emarginate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. emarginate: Rhymezone
  15. Emarginate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. emarginate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. emarginate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. emarginate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. emarginate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emarginate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Emarginate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  6. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emarginate)

adjective:  (botany, of leaves) With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
adjective:  (botany, mycology) Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
adjective:  (zoology, anatomy) Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
verb:  (transitive) To take away the margin of.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose the margin.
verb:  To marginalize.

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