The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crenulate \Cren"u*late\ (kr?n"?-l?t), Crenulated \Cren"u*la`ted\ (-l?`t?d), a. [Dim. of crenate.] (Bot.) Minutely crenate.
Wiktionary
a. (context sciences English) Minutely crenate or scalloped.
WordNet
adj. having a margin with small rounded teeth; "a crenulate leaf" [syn: crenulated]
Usage examples of "crenulate".
Trident-bearing Neptune was there, and sportive tritons and fantastic nereids, and upon dolphins' backs was balanced a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the gay and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.
It was amazing, considering how short and frenzied his first flight over this alien landscape had been, how indelibly those crenulated walls had carved themselves into his memory.
Sulu sent the cloaked aircraft skimming around the first of the towers, staying well clear of open windows and crenulated walls where guards might be stationed.
Restraining the urge to hurry, he swung the shuttle across the crenulated edge of the Gorn fortifications and settled it down into the rain-wet fronds of a towering stand of tree ferns, just deep enough to let their visual deception screens blend in with the swaying greenery while leaving them a clear view of the massed Gorn forces.
The crenulated wall was almost obscured along this side by a vast tent city that had been erected in the clearing beyond.
Despite its crenulated battlements, round towers and embrasures, it didn't begin to rank with the Windsors and Balmorals of this world.
The seaward side was dominated by two crenulated towers, one topped by a twenty-foot flagpole and flag, the other by an even taller TV mast.
They sailed high above Tronjheim, where crenulated icicles hung from the sides of Farthen Dûr, forming a great white band around them.
The field of boulder-strewn talus they alighted upon was brilliant yellow from a coating of hard, crenulated lichen.
In the distance, above the shadowy housetops of P-Town, the silhouette of the Pilgrim Monument showed clearly against the night sky, an eighty-five-meter tower of grey granite—and poised beside it, midway up its length, seeming to be only meters from its crenulated stone windows, was a brilliant crescent moon.
In the distance, above the shadowy housetops of P-Town, the silhouette of the Pilgrim Monument showed clearly against the night sky, an eighty-five-meter tower of grey graniteand poised beside it, midway up its length, seeming to be only meters from its crenulated stone windows, was a brilliant crescent moon.