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Serrated   /sˈɛrˌeɪtɪd/   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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"Serrated" Quotes from Famous Books



... now beneath us. A shadowed sea, deep purple in the night down there. Occasional green-verdured islands showed, with the lines of white surf marking them. Beyond the sea, a curving coastline was visible. Rocky headlines, behind which mountain foothills rose in serrated, verdured ranks. The sunlight edged the distant mountains; and presently this rapidly turning little world ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various
... advance guard of dawn emerged from behind the serrated peaks to the east and paused on their snow-encrusted summits before charging down the slopes into the open desert to rout the lingering shadows of the night, a coyote came out of his den in the tumbled malpais at the ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... the shore. He is within three feet of the bank when a something, which looks like a log of charred timber, rises to the surface behind him, two gleaming eyes glare at him, and, with a horrid snap, a pair of serrated jaws close upon his hind quarters, and he is dragged back and under, to furnish a meal to the ...
— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood
... should not be made too common, and thus be undervalued. This northern coast of New Guinea is exposed to the full swell of the Pacific Ocean, and is rugged and harbourless. The country is all rocky and mountainous, covered everywhere with dense forests, offering in its swamps and precipices and serrated ridges an almost impassable barrier to the unknown interior; and the people are dangerous savages, in the very lowest stage of barbarism. In such a country, and among such a people, are found these wonderful productions of Nature, the Birds of Paradise, whose exquisite beauty of form and colour ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... figure are found strewn on the ground numerous fragments of pottery of high grade in the ornamentation, and small arrow-heads of flint, quartz, and chalcedony delicately formed, and small knife-blades with convex and serrated edges ...
— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan


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