 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
serrate
adjective: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn:
{serrated}, {saw-toothed}, {toothed}, {notched}]
verb: make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of
the teeth"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Serrate \Ser"rate\, Serrated \Ser"ra*ted\, adjective [L. serratus, fr.
serra a saw; perhaps akin to secare to cut, E. saw a cutting
instrument. Cf. {Sierra}.]
1. Notched on the edge, like a saw.
2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as,
serrate leaves.
{Doubly serrate}, having small serratures upon the large
ones, as the leaves of the elm.
{Serrate-ciliate}, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on
the serratures; -- said of a leaf.
{Serrate-dentate}, having the serratures toothed.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "serrate":
V-shaped, Vandyke, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, battlemented, bent,
blaze, chop, chopped, cornered, corrugated, cragged, craggy,
crenate, crenated, crenellate, crenellated, crenulate, crimp,
crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, cut, dentate, dentated,
embrasured, erose, forked, furcal, furcate, gash, gashed,
geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh, hooked, incise, incised,
indent, indented, ironbound, jag, jagged, jaggy, knee-shaped,
knurl, lacerate, lacerated, machicolate, mill, nick, nicked, notch,
notched, picot, pink, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rugged,
rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scallop, scalloped,
scarify, score, scored, scotch, scragged, scraggly, scraggy,
serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, slash, snagged,
snaggled, snaggy, stony, tooth, toothed, wrinkled, zigzag
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