Crenation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crenation \Cre*na"tion\ (kr?-n?"sh?n), n.
     1. (Bot.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
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     2. The condition of being crenate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crenation
       n : one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches
           between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge
           of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a
           shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic
           solution etc.) [syn: {scallop}, {crenature}, {crenel}, {crenelle}]