lacrimate

present singular third person lacrimates · participle present lacrimating · participle past lacrimated · past lacrimated

1. alternativeAlternative form of lachrymate.

   In man there is the added ability to weep, or lacrimate, which is an excessive outpouring of the lacrimal gland.

   1962, William K[irk] McEwen, “Anatomical Aspects of Tear Secretion”, in Hugh Davson, editor, The Eye, volume 3 (Muscular Mechanisms), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, published 1966 (2nd printing), →LCCN, part III, chapter 10 (Secretion of Tears and Blinking), page 272

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   We present the first unequivocal evidence that crocodilians lacrimate during meals and that they do so in a peculiar fashion.

   2007 July, D[avid] Malcolm Shaner, Kent A[llen] Vliet, “Crocodile Tears: And thei eten hem wepynge”, in BioScience, volume 57, number 7, Herndon, Va.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 615

   These symptoms intensify over the next 12 h, during which time she has a runny nose, is lacrimating, and has uncontrollable yawning and intensification of muscle cramping and jerking.

   2015, “CNS Drug List and Practice Questions”, in USMLE Step 1 Pharmacology Lecture Notes 2015, New York, N.Y.: Kaplan Medical, →ISBN, section IV (CNS Pharmacology), page 167

comparative more lacrimate · superlative most lacrimate

1. alternativeAlternative form of lachrymate.

   Unicellate smooth-walled fungal spores, mostly medium-sized, spatulate to lacrimate, rarely approaching elliptical; […]

   2000, J. Jansonius, R. M. Kalgutkar, “Redescription of Some Fossil Fungal Spores”, in Palynology, volume 24, number 1, Austin, Tex.: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 37–47

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   Adult shell ca 40 mm in height, thin, fragile; spire elevated, concave, sutures shallow; columella strongly plaited; aperture broadly lacrimate.....

   1968, Willard Nelson Harman, The Distribution and Ecology of the Aquatic Gastropoda of Central New York […], Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, page 55

   Near the middle of the anterior reproductive organ mass, the hermaphroditic duct gives off a short duct that reflects posteriorly and enlarges into a lacrimate ampulla (Fig. 4) in which endogenous sperm are presumably stored (Beeman, 1970a, b; Ghiselin, 1966).

   1984 December, Brian R. Rivest, “Copulation by Hypodermic Injection in the Nudibranchs Palio zosterae and P. dubia (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)”, in Charles B. Metz, editor, The Biological Bulletin, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 548