crenate

American  

[kree-neyt] / ˈkri neɪt /

Also crenated

adjective

1. having the margin notched or scalloped so as to form rounded teeth, as a leaf.

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crenate British  

/ ˈkriːneɪt, ˈkriːneɪtɪd /

adjective

1. having a scalloped margin, as certain leaves

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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

This may cause an animal cell to shrivel, or crenate.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

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

Shrub or tree, 10–25° high; leaves thickish, shining, deciduous, spatulate or oblanceolate, with a long tapering base, crenate above, rarely cut-lobed, nearly sessile.—Va. to Fla., west to Mo. and Tex.

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

The younger branches and the under surface of the rhombic-oval sinuate-toothed acute leaves white-tomentose; scales crenate, fringed.—Frequently cultivated for shade, spreading widely by the root, and occasionally spontaneous.

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.—Alternate; long-petioled; ovate; cuneate; crenate; with lanceolate stipules.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth