crenate
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- crenately adverb
- noncrenate adjective
- noncrenated adjective
- subcrenate adjective
- subcrenated adjective
- subcrenately adverb
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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This may cause an animal cell to shrivel, or crenate.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
P. 1.5-2 cm. hemispher. sulcate, edge crenate, yellowish and atomate when dry; g. adnate; s. 3-5 cm. whitish, striate and mealy upwards; sp. 11-13 � 5-6. disseminata, Pers.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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 Gray, Asa
Leaves.—Opposite; ovate or ovate-oblong; cordate; coarsely crenate; wrinkly veined; petioled; an inch or two long.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Stems narrowly forked at the apex; leaves horizontal, subquadrate, the upper undulate-lobed; diœcious; perianth dilated-conic, crenate; spores brownish-yellow, globose-tetrahedral, not depressed, 30 µ broad, deeply reticulated, the reticulations large, 5–6-angled.—Brackish meadows, common; fruiting in early spring.
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 Gray, Asa
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