emarginate

Meanings

Adjective

• With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
• Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point.
• Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
• Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.

Verb

• To take away the margin of.
• To lose the margin.
• To marginalize.

Origin

• From Latin emarginare; e- + marginare, from margo.