crenate
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Origin of crenate
1785–95; < New Latin crēnātus, equivalent to Latin crēn ( a ) a notch, serration (a word occurring in some manuscripts of Pliny, identified with a semantically related set of Rom words; see crenel) + -ātus -ate 1
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This may cause an animal cell to shrivel, or crenate.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Leaves round, ovate, or kidney-shape, rounded at the base, crenate or lobed 12a, in SAXIFRAGACEAE, p.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
Leaves.—Opposite; wrinkly; white-woolly beneath; crenate; the lower three to eight inches long; hastate-lanceolate; on margined petioles; upper sessile; pointed.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Shortia.—S. galacifolia, a beautiful tufted plant 2 to 3 in. high, with roundish crenate leaves, on long stalks, and white funnel-shaped flowers in March and April.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Stamens 4, included in the tube of the corolla.—Whitish-woolly bitter-aromatic perennials, branched at the base, with rugose and crenate or cut leaves, and many-flowered axillary whorls.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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