Definitions for crenulate

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crenulate cren·u·late

Spelling: [kren-yuh-leyt, -lit or kren-y Crenulate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in crenulate (aceelnrtu).

Definitions for crenulate

adjective

1. minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.

Origin of crenulate

1785-95; New Latin crēnulātus, equivalent to crēnul(a) (diminutive of crēna notch; see crenate) + -ātus -ate

Examples for crenulate

In some other plants the edges are serrulate, crenulate, etc.

Crenulata means bearing notches, referring to the crenulate form of the gills, which are very distinct.

Processes large near the ends of the major axis and not oblique to it, or scarcely so, the edges with a crenulate border.

The margin was entire, and not crenulate, as in many dolphins.

crenulate: with small scallops, evenly rounded and rather deeply curved.

Petals (crenulate) and stamens 5, inserted on the margin of a cup-shaped disk which lines the base of the calyx.

In the example selected for our plate the pinnules are oblong, obtuse and crenulate, or at most, crenately-toothed.