'Serrate' definitions:
Definition of 'serrate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn: serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched]
verb
Make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth"
Definition of 'Serrate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'serrate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- V-shaped,
- Vandyke,
- wrinkled,
- Y-shaped,
- zigzag