crenulate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of crenulate
1785–95; < New Latin crēnulātus, equivalent to crēnul ( a ) (diminutive of crēna notch; see crenate) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Avenatti’s offices, in Newport Beach, occupy half a floor of a tower overlooking the city’s crowded downtown and, farther out, the crenulate, denim-blue sprawl of the Pacific.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2018
P. campan.-convex, lubricous, smoky-ochre, edge revolute downy and whitish; g. sinuate, crowded, reddish, edge white, crenulate; s. slender, whitish, subbulbous, with reflexed circinate fibrils; sp. 11-12 long. nauseosum, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. grooved, edge crenulate, silvery with a central tawny spot, 5-7 mm.; g. adnate; s. capillary, glabrous, 2-3 cm.; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Thallus 3–6´´ long, 1–3´´ wide, with membranous margins; receptacle small, hemispherical, 1–4-fruited, the peduncle about 1´ high, sparingly scaly at base, barbulate at the apex; involucre short, crenulate; spores tuberculate.
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
P. globose then convex, even, subrimosely squamulose when dry, yellowish white, edge lobed; g. nearly free, sooty, edge crenulate; s. solid, subtuberous, fibrillose, white, ring fugacious. caput-medusae, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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