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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a tooth or notch of a crenate leaf.
  • noun Crena ani, the fissure between the nates.
  • noun In entomology, a small, linear, raised mark resembling a wrinkle; one of the projections of a crenate surface or margin.
  • noun In anatomy, one of the small projections by which the bones of the skull fit together in the sutures.

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