Associations to the word «Lacinia»

Wiktionary

LACINIA, noun. (botany) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
LACINIA, noun. (botany) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.
LACINIA, noun. (zoology) The posterior inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats