dentate

American  

[den-tayt] / ˈdɛn teɪt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. having a toothed margin or toothlike projections or processes.

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dentate British  

/ ˈdɛnteɪt /

adjective

1. having teeth or toothlike processes

2. (of leaves) having a toothed margin

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dentate Scientific  

/ dĕn′tāt′ /

1. Edged with toothlike projections; toothed. Used of leaves, such as those of birches.

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Other Word Forms

• subdentate
  adjective
• dentately
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of dentate

1800–10; < Latin dentātus, equivalent to dent- (stem of dēns ) tooth + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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dentate

Firstly, the researchers used a technique called optogenetics, where they added light-sensitive proteins to newly-formed neurons in the dentate gyrus, allowing the neurons to be activated by light.

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024

Most lost are dentate gyrus neuroblasts, which are essential for creating neurons in the hippocampus, a region linked to memory and diseases like Alzheimer's.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

"There is a certain unsafeness in the Philippines, but Cambodia is probably worse," Volker declares as we amble through his garden, past beds of dentate flytraps and sticky sundews.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2012

Involucre double, the inner shorter, of 2 or more dentate and deeply cleft leaves.

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 Asa Gray

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