laciniate

Say laciniate and one syllable carries the whole word. The other three are so light that the letters in them could be almost anything, and in the nine spellings filed here they are.

Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes, as though the edge had been slashed rather than toothed. The individual strips are called laciniae.

Latin lacinia was the fringe or flap at the hem of a garment, and laciniatus meant fringed in exactly that sense before any botanist borrowed it. English keeps the noun too: the segments of a laciniate leaf are its laciniae, which is the best reason to remember where the letters go.