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

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

Clary, klār′i, n. a biennial with clammy stem, large, heart-shaped, rough, doubly crenate leaves, and whorls of pale-blue flowers in loose terminal spikes, with large coloured bracts.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

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