Meaning

2 senses
  1. A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; a crenelle.

  2. The state of being crenated or notched.

More definitions
  • one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

Forms

plural: crenatures
Singularcrenature
Pluralcrenatures

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.):scallopcrenationcrenelcrenelle

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