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

Thallus 2–6´ long, ½–¾´ wide; receptacle conic, striate, crenate.

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

Hirsute-tomentose or villous, 2–3° high, very leafy; leaves crenate, the radical oblong, petiolate, the cauline oblong-cordate to subcordate-lanceolate, the upper closely sessile; heads somewhat cymose, ½´ broad.—S. W. Mo. to La. 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 projections between are rounded off so that the banks of the stream have assumed the crenate form shown in Plate XXVIII, and Frontispiece.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip nearly erect, 2-lobed, the lower somewhat spreading, 3-cleft, with the middle lobe crenate.

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