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serrate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Serrate \Ser"rate\, Serrated \Ser"ra*ted\, a. [L. serratus, fr. serra a saw; perhaps akin to secare to cut, E. saw a cutting instrument. Cf. Sierra.]
Notched on the edge, like a saw.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"notched," 1660s, from Latin serratus "sawlike, notched like a saw," from serra "a saw," of unknown origin. Related: Serrated; serrating.
Wiktionary
1 Having tooth-like projections on one side, as in a saw. 2 (context botany English) (qualifier: leaves) Having tooth-like projections pointed away from the petiole. v
To make serrate.
WordNet
adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn: serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched]
v. make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth"
Usage examples of "serrate".
Whirl like wheels offire, and her voice had serrated edges to it, a kind of velvetfile rasping in her head.
They had sharp, compressed, and recurved teeth, the edges of which were serrated.
Nigh Sump a woman died of massive puncture wounds to both sides of her neck, as if she had been caught between the blades of huge serrated scissors.
Troy pushed through a row of hard, fibrous stems, and suddenly they stared in amazement at a long, low swath of ground-hugging plants, dark green trifoliate leaves with tiny serrated edges, and bright berries.
Cleavers, Clithers, Robin run in the grass, Burweed, Loveman, Gooseherriff, Mutton chops, Clite, Clide, Clitheren, and Goosebill, from the sharp, serrated leaves, like the rough-edged mandibles of a goose.
This fitted on to a small projection at the side of the pistolthe spindle of the serrated wheel which the main spring would spin against the flint gripped in the doghead and, as the pancover slid back, shower sparks into the pan to set off the priming powder and send a spurt of flame down the touchhole into the breech.
This fitted on to a small projection at the side of the pistol the spindle of the serrated wheel which the main spring would spin against the flint gripped in the doghead and, as the pancover slid back, shower sparks into the pan to set off the priming powder and send a spurt of flame down the touchhole into the breech.
A finger run along the serrated edges and a tiny drawdown of power, and the two layers sealed themselves together again.
On these serrated edges the medusas, globs of muscular mucus as wide as tabletops, hang stranded and expiring, thrown up by tempests that rend the glutinous, tideless waves.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.
The guard already had his knife out, a nasty-looking serrated weapon with a handguard consisting of a series of thick, needle-sharp spikes alternatively curving up and down from the base of the blade.
As it had been with Khatin, Keeper of the Tablets of Ezekiel, his eyes burned with cold star fire out of a white-frothed face like serrated parchment.
The edges were serrated, and the blade was at least two full armlengths long.
It jerked back huge pieces of meat and swallowed them with only two or three knife-whispering chomps of the big serrated teeth behind its beak.
The fiends snarled at the green flares, thick drool oozing from serrated fangs.