Definition of Crenate

1. Adjective. Having a margin with rounded scallops.

Exact synonyms: Crenated, Scalloped
Similar to: Rough

Definition of Crenate

1. a. Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

Definition of Crenate

1. Adjective. (botany) Having round or blunt teeth on its margin; scalloped. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of crenic acid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crenate

1. having an edge with rounded projections [adj]

Medical Definition of Crenate

1. With small, rounded teeth, scalloped. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crenate

crems
cremsin
cremulator
cremulators
crena
crena ani
crena clunium
crena cordis
crenarchaea
crenarchaeal
crenarchaeon
crenarchaeota
crenarchaeotal
crenarchaeote
crenas
crenate (current term)
crenate leaf
crenated
crenately
crenates
crenation
crenations
crenature
crenatures
crenel
crenelate
crenelated
crenelated molding
crenelated moldings
crenelates

Literary usage of Crenate

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

1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"(AA Hayes) ; 0.455 grain calcium-crenate, and 0.01 grain ferrous crenate, Berkeley Spring, Va. (AA Hayes) ; O.O66 grain ammonium-crenate, and 0.085 grain ..."

2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"leaves uval, obtuse, crenate: cauline ones sessile: flowers axillary and ... leaves round-reniform, doubly-crenate, with scattered hairs above: scape erect ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"(JL Smith) ; 0.312 grain ferrous crenate in the thermal waters of the Warm ... (AA Hayes) ; 0.066 grain ammonium-crenate, and 0.085 grain ferrous crenate, ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"G. MOLLE L. Weak, spreading, soft-pubescent ; leaves orbicular, cleft to the middle, the segments crenate or incised ; sepals ovate-oblong, not owned, ..."

5. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Leaves variable in form and size, coriaceous, entire or crenate, narrowed into petiole, obovate oblanceolate or linear-spathulate. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"(AA Hayes) ; 0.455 grain calcium-crenate, and 0.01 grain ferrous crenate, Berkeley Spring, Va. (AA Hayes) ; O.O66 grain ammonium-crenate, and 0.085 grain ..."

7. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"leaves uval, obtuse, crenate: cauline ones sessile: flowers axillary and ... leaves round-reniform, doubly-crenate, with scattered hairs above: scape erect ..."

8. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"(JL Smith) ; 0.312 grain ferrous crenate in the thermal waters of the Warm ... (AA Hayes) ; 0.066 grain ammonium-crenate, and 0.085 grain ferrous crenate, ..."

9. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"G. MOLLE L. Weak, spreading, soft-pubescent ; leaves orbicular, cleft to the middle, the segments crenate or incised ; sepals ovate-oblong, not owned, ..."

10. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Leaves variable in form and size, coriaceous, entire or crenate, narrowed into petiole, obovate oblanceolate or linear-spathulate. ..."

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