adj Shaped like a single drop of liquid falling from the eye.
- Lateral furrow 1p situated slightly in front of mid-length, narrow and deep, directed inward and backward and reaching the occipital furrow, deepest close to axial furrow; basal lobe lachrymate in outline, moderately convex.
— Harry Blackmore Whittington, Rhinotarion sentosum n. sp (1967)
adj Marked or made wet by crying.
- The animal does not become seriously ill, but scratches itself vigorously, is either very restless or very somnolent or both alternately, hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.
— Chester H. Elliott, The Antigenic Properties of Glycoproteins (1914)
- Lachrymate and weeping motifs are typically present throughout all the volumes and display certain regular features, but they do not form a unilateral or monolithic image.
— Marjory E. Lange, Tears in a Woman’s Voice, a Rider (1996)
