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Definition of Dentate

1. Adjective. Having toothlike projections in the margin.

Definition of Dentate

1. a. Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

Definition of Dentate

1. Adjective. Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dentate

1. having teeth [adj]

Medical Definition of Dentate

1. 1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." 2. Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale, any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Dentate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"6), although that species is said to have non-dentate humeri. Direct comparison will be necessary to indicate the real differences, as it can hardly be ..."

2. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"dentate (toothed), the tissue incomplete, having teeth with concave edges, pointing outwards ... If the teeth are themselves toothed, it it doubly dentate. ..."

3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... na inch and half to 4 inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to an inch an half wide, coarsely serrate-dentate, with an entire long narrow ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The dentate or hippocampal fissure commences immediately behind the posterior extremity of the corpus callosum, and runs forward to terminate at the ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"number, and are named the calloso-marginal, the parieto-occipital, the calcarine, the collateral, and the dentate. The calloso-marginal fissure is seen in ..."

6. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"heteromorphic, dentate scales, in an irregular row on each side of the costa, attached by the posterior margin or near the middle with the margins free. ..."

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