Meaning of collarette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
2. A small collar of inner petals or leaf-like extensions to the stem.
3. A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
4. The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
5. The rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
6. An advertising card fitted around the neck of a bottle.

Examples

“Work the 2 stitches in looped knitting; the last ten rows make a kind of gore on the lower edge of the collarette.”

“Men in Sunday suits and orange collarettes swaggered to the music from uniformed flute bands.”

“The regalia of the Regional Grand Officers comprise the following items: an apron, a sash, a pair of gauntlets, a cap, a collarette, a collarette jewel, and the Order's breast jewel.”

“There are no recurved strap-shaped little flowers; collarette of the composite flower with scales arranged in several rows ( Fig . TVU )”

“The rather inconspicuous collarette of Aspergillus contrasts with the distinctive collarette of Phialophora richardsiae (Nannf. apud Melin & Nannf.)”

“The Collarette dahlia is a very novel and distinct type.”

“The edge of the pupil is soft and seems to dissolve into the collarette rather than stand apart from it.”

“Occasionally, scaling may be diffuse and irregular instead of collarette of fragments of scales that from the border into the center of the lesion, like a curtain”

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