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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, between sinuate and dentate; having the margin provided with both teeth and decided sinuations.
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The inner ones may be linear or linear-lanceolate, with or without appendages below the tip; the outer ones may be similar and only shorter, or noticeably larger, erect, spreading or even reflexed, and the color of the involucre may be a pure green or glaucous; the leaves may be nearly entire or pinnatifid, or sinuate-dentate, or very deeply runcinate-pinnatifid, or even pinnately divided, the whole plant being more or less glabrous.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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