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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a margin with very small, low, rounded teeth: a crenulate leaf.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Notched; marked as with notches.
  2. Specifically— In botany, having the edge cut into very small scallops, as some leaves. Also crenelate, crenellate.
  3. In conchology, an epithet applied to the indented margin of a shell. The fine saw-like edge of the shell of the cockle, which fits nicely into the opposite shell, is a familiar example.
  4. In entomology, finely crenate or waved: as, a crenulate margin.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. sciences Minutely crenate or scalloped.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Minutely crenate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having a margin with small rounded teeth

Etymologies

  1. New Latin crēnulātus, from crēnula, diminutive of Medieval Latin crēna, notch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee But scalloped potatoes sound so much tastier than crenulated potatoes. ;-) Jun 12, 2007

  • seanahan Like scalloped potatoes. Jun 12, 2007

  • reesetee having a slightly scalloped edge Jun 12, 2007

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