Definition of Serratures

1. serrature [n] - See also: serrature

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serratures

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

Literary usage of Serratures

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The very large acorns are remarkable for their thick cups with long reflexed scales ; the leaves are large, oblong, with deep serratures terminating in a ..."

2. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"E.) Leaves spear-shaped, with tapering serratures, naked beneath. Even vessel) consecrated to religious ceremonies, according to Pliny, ..."

3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... pubescent leaves, edge with large triangular serratures, and a terminal, pedunculate, corymbose cyme, shorter than the leaves, with pale-yellow flowers, ..."

4. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1834)
"... blunt figure, with shallow notches or teeth (serratures), a little wrinkled, veined, minutely hairy, paler underneath. ..."

5. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"... with distant serratures : racemes compound, terminal and axillary, almost without prickles, pubescent: petals stamens and capsules 4 : seed 1, shining, ..."

6. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... the serratures curved inwards and uncinate, furrowed on the upper side, and many nerved underneath, generally 5 strong nerves proceeding from the base, ..."

7. A Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire: With a by William Patrick (1831)
"Leaves lanceolate, pointed, sharply serrate, serratures equal. Flowers with whitish ray and disk, in a flatish terminal corymb. The leaves in powder when ..."

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