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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Curled or ruffled, as the margins of certain leaves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a crisped appearance. In botany, same as crisp, 2.
  2. In entomology, specifically applied to a margin which is disproportionately large for the disk, so that it is uneven, rising and falling in folds which radiate toward the edge. If these folds are curved, the margin is said to be undulate; if they are angular, corrugate. Also crisp.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Having curled, wavy or notched edges

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. wavy or notched and curled very irregularly

Etymologies

  1. Latin crispātus, past participle of crispāre, to curl, from crispus, curly; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Other words for ‘crispate’

  1. rough
  1. crispated

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crisp
  1. crispature
  1. crisped
  1. crispifloral
  1. crispifoliate

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  • jmjarmstrong JM shudders at the thought of a crispate wave in the manner of a Mexican Wave. Mar 10, 2010

  • bilby And what does Cris say about you, I wonder? Aug 4, 2009

  • fbharjo a source of irritation Aug 4, 2009

  • reesetee Irregular and wrinkled. I feel this way sometimes. ;-) Jun 12, 2007

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