serrate

serrate
    adj 1: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
           [syn: {serrate}, {serrated}, {saw-toothed}, {toothed},
           {notched}]
    v 1: make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of
         the teeth"
    

Serrate \Ser"rate\, Serrated \Ser"ra*ted\, a. [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.
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   2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as,
      serrate leaves.
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   {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.
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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