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Serrate   /sˈɛrˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Serrated, Serrate  adj.  
1.
Notched on the edge, like a saw.
2.
(Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves.
Doubly serrate, having small serratures upon the large ones, as the leaves of the elm.
Serrate-ciliate, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on the serratures; said of a leaf.
Serrate-dentate, having the serratures toothed.





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"Serrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... rose, and inspected the flowers delightedly. "This is it, surely!" he repeated. "Stem stout, hairy above; leaves large, oblong, or the lower spatulate-oval, and tapering into a marginal petiole, serrate veiny; heads numerous; seeds obtuse or acute; disk-flowers, 16 x 24. This is, indeed, a treasure, for Gray calls it 'rare in New England.' ...
— "Some Say" - Neighbours in Cyrus • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... lanceolate, with a tip finely drawn out. Its base is rounded and the margin wavy, especially so towards the base. On the margin towards the base long hairs are seen, and some of these arise from small tubercles. The margin has a hyaline border which is very minutely serrate. There is a distinct midrib and, on holding the leaf against the light, four or five small veins come in to view. In the spaces between these veins lie many fine veins. All the veins run parallel from the base to the ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... formed from the neuter Greek noun, thrausma, meaning fragment, and the masculine Greek noun, sauros, meaning reptile. The specific name, serratidens, is formed from the Latin serratus, meaning serrate, and the masculine Latin noun, dens, meaning tooth. The specific name is used as a substantive in apposition with the ...
— Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma • Richard C. Fox


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