Definition of Serrature

1. n. A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.

Definition of Serrature

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serrature

serrate
serrate leaf
serrate suture
serrated
serrated wrack
serrates
serrati
serratia
serratia infections
serrating
serration
serrations
serratiopeptidase
serratirostral
serrator
serrature
serratures
serratus
serratus anterior
serratus magnus
serratus muscles
serratus posterior
serratus posterior inferior
serratus posterior superior
serratus posterior superior muscle
serre
serred
serrefine
serrefines
serrenoeud

Literary usage of Serrature

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

1. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1832)
"Remarks on the Serrature of the Middle Claw, and the irregular ... In the herons, in which the middle claw has a thin margin, the serrature is regular ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Its teeth are small, flat, triangular, and without serrature (fig. 13 ; the single tooth is of the natural size). It follows the shoals of herrings, ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1868)
"Serrature of abdomen very conspicuous. Gill-rakers fine, closely set, the longest shorter than the eye; there are about thirty-four on the lower branch of ..."

4. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1859)
"Both the pairs meet at a rather obtuse angle, and here the serrature is somewhat stronger and more like that of the operculum. The skull of Myripristis ..."

5. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1859)
"Both the pairs meet at a rather obtuse angle, and here the serrature is somewhat stronger and more like that of the operculum. ..."

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