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Definition of Crenulate
1. Adjective. Having a margin with small rounded teeth. "A crenulate leaf"
Definition of Crenulate
1. a. Minutely crenate.
Definition of Crenulate
1. Adjective. (botany) Minutely crenate or scalloped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crenulate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Crenulate
1. Minutely scalloped. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crenulate
Literary usage of Crenulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... in. petioled obliquely oblong obtuse crenulate glabrous or pubescent beneath,
stipules elongate, ..."
2. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Pinnules glaucous beneath, the segments entire. * * Pinnules uniformly green;
segments crenulate (at least Son placed in 2 diverging rows forming the letter ..."
3. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... and very much crenulate, tapering to the base, inserted in the tube of the
calyx at the mouth, white tinged with blush, with a pale rose-coloured base, ..."
4. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... the strias minutely crenulate. Scape 12-18 inches high, arising collaterally
with the bulb from the root- stock within the base of the leaves, ..."
5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"... acute and usually somewhat decurved at apex, margins minutely crenulate or
... keel arched, crenulate from papillose cells, free margin almost straight, ..."
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