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adj
Marked with lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, obsolete
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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adj
Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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verb
To mark with lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To delineate, represent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
First attested in 1643; borrowed from Latin delineātus, participial adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
First attested in 1558; borrowed from Medieval Latin līneātus, perfect passive participle of līneō (“to draw a line; (classically) to reduce to a straight line, make straight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līnea (“a line”).
