serrate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ser=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

serrate, a. [L. serratus, fr. serra a saw; perhaps akin to secare to cut, E. saw a cutting instrument. Cf. Sierra.].

•  Notched on the edge, like a saw.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

serrate, v. & adj.
--v.tr. (usu. as serrated adj.) provide with a sawlike edge.
--adj. esp. Anat., Bot., & Zool. notched like a saw.

Derivative

serration n.

Etymology

LL serrare serrat- f. L serra saw

THESAURUS

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