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- adjective
crenate
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- adjective having a margin with rounded scallops
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Examples
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They pretend that it has an area as large as Algiers, surrounded with a mud wall, twelve or fifteen feet high, and crenated.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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On this account, they are surrounded by crenated walls, defended by towers solidly built.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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The higher ones also have a similar appearance; these appear quite precipitous, and have in some parts a curious crenated outline.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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He stood before us smiling and open-eyed while he ran long needles into the fleshy part of his arms and legs without flinching, and he allowed one of the gentlemen present to pinch his skin in different parts with strong crenated pincers in a manner which bruised it, and which to most people would have caused intense pain.
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The builders of Tusayan appear to have been afraid to add the necessary weight of mud mortar to produce this finished effect, the hoods usually showing a vertically ridged or crenated surface, caused by the sticks of the framework showing through the thin mud coat.
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Those varieties which have the margin crenated or lobed seem most liable to assume this abnormal supra-soriferous condition.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The rest of the town of Avignon, placed as it is on a low level, affords no striking coup d'oeil, from the direction in which we approached it: the ancient walls, however, which inclose its whole circumference, unbroken and perfect, and beautifully crenated in every part, are a very remarkable feature.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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The crenated outline may be produced as the first effect of the passage of an electric shock: subsequently, if sufficiently strong, the shock ruptures the envelope.
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Solutions of salt or sugar, denser than the plasma, give them a stellate or crenated appearance (exosmosis) (Fig. 453, d), but the usual shape may be restored by diluting the solution to the same tonicity as the plasma.
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Indians, — Ed. Page view page image: crenated and oblong, rather more obtuce at it's opex than the base or insertion, it's margin armed with prickles while it's disks are hairy, its insertion decurrent and position declineing. the flower is also dry and mutilated the pericarp seems much like that of the common thistle it rises to the hight of from
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
mdwriternm commented on the word crenated
I just like the way it sounds. A nice alternative to "scalloped."
October 25, 2007