serrulate

American  

[ser-yuh-lit, -layt, ser-uh-] / ˈsɛr jə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈsɛr ə- /

Often serrulated

adjective

1. finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.

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serrulate British  

/ ˈsɛrʊˌleɪt, -lɪt /

adjective

1. (esp of leaves) minutely serrate

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Etymology

Origin of serrulate

1785–95; < New Latin serrulātus, equivalent to Latin serrul(a) “small saw” ( see serrate, -ule ( def. ) ) + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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serrulate

Seeds mostly pendulous.—Shrubs with petioled and serrulate leaves, and white scaly-bracted flowers in dense axillary or terminal spiked racemes.

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

P. convex, umb. then plane, viscid, rufous brown, discoid, with scattered yellow pilose scales; g. serrulate, white then brown; s. elongated, cuticle separating. sobria, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Stem glabrous, tall, very leafy; leaves mostly alternate, linear to filiform and entire, or the lowest lanceolate and serrulate; scales filiform-attenuate.—Dry plains, Mo. to Neb., south and westward.

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

Leaves.—Alternate; petioled; oblong; entire or serrulate; four inches or so long.

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

Glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate, acute, scarcely serrulate; style short.—Damp soils, Va. to Ky. and Mo., and southward.

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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