The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crenature \Cren"a*ture\ (kr?n"?-t?r or kr?"n?-; 135), n.
(Bot.) A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.
The state of being crenated or notched.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of crenel English)
WordNet
n. one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) [syn: scallop, crenation, crenature, crenel]
a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement [syn: crenel]
Usage examples of "crenelle".
Then she remembered that she was dressed as a male youth, as were Crenelle, Tourette, and Lita.
But Talena, Crenelle, Tourette, and Lita were significantly farther toward the boats than they had been.
They were now sharing the house with the neighbors whose home had been destroyed: Crenelle and her pretty but awkward daughter Tourette.
Heath could not have told him of Crenelle and Tourette, because Heath had not known they would be here.
Talena and Crenelle took turns tutoring them, and on occasion Wilhelm did also.
As they organized for supper in the evening, Talena staged a dialogue with Melee for the benefit of the monitors: "Melee, remember last year when Lita and I were trapped with Crenelle and Tourette?
Talena, Crenelle, and Tourette walked beside, all of them secretly armed.
Another man tried to intervene, but Crenelle cut toward him with such an aspect of business that he fell back.
They packed him onto the rickshaw in place of his mother, who walked, and Crenelle took up the job of hauling.
As the second one charged Crenelle, she dodged aside, and clubbed him on the head as he passed, bringing him down.
Then Crenelle and Tourette were in the tunnel, backing along it, watching for pursuit.
Blanche would have been hard to please if she had not been satisfied with this mansion, one of the most magnificent in Paris, with an entrance on the Rue de Crenelle, and large gardens shaded with superb trees, and extending to the Rue de Varennes.
An adjacent parapet was a shadowy line, and further crenelles and embrasures were barely hinted at in the dim starlight.