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Serration   Listen
noun
Serration  n.  
1.
Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.
2.
One of the teeth in a serrate or serrulate margin.





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"Serration" Quotes from Famous Books



... deeper tint of the fading leaves and the smaller size of the buds and seeds in America than in Europe; while the less deeply toothed or serrated leaves in the American species are, in our present complete ignorance of the causes and uses of serration, quite as likely to be due to some form of adaptation as to any direct action of the climate. Again, we are not told how many of the allied species do not vary in this particular manner, and this is certainly an important factor in any conclusion we ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... It ought to have been noticed that the character of serration, within reserved limits, is essential to an Apolline leaf, and absolutely refused by an Arethusan ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Serration" :   row, condition, sawtooth, status


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