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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having teeth, especially of a certain number or type. Often used in combination: saw-toothed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
  2. Jagged; notched; dentate; serrate.
  3. Specifically— Thorny.
  4. In botany, having a series of regular or irregular projecting points about the margin; dentate: as, a toothed leaf, calyx, etc.; having tooth-like projections, as the roots of Dentaria.
  5. In ornithology, having a tooth-like projection of the cutting edge of the bill, as a falcon's beak; dentirostral. See cuts under dentirostral and Thamnophilinæ.
  6. In conchology, having a tooth-like projection, or such projections, about the margin of a bivalve, or the aperture of a univalve, as a unio or a helix. See tooth, n., 3 , and cuts under bivalve, Monoceros, and Monodonta.
  7. In anatomy, odontoid or dentate: noting the axis, or second cervical vertebra. See axis, 3 .
  8. In entomology, having one or more sharp tooth-like processes: as, a toothed margin or mandible.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having teeth.
  2. adj. Having projections resembling teeth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
  2. adj. Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
  2. adj. having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination
  3. adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

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