Word Meanings - SERRATESERRATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves. Doubly serrate, having small serratures upon the large ones, as the leaves of the elm. -- Serrate-ciliate, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on the serratures; -- said of a leaf. -- Serrate-dentate, having the serratures toothed.

• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• Toothbill
  A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three
• DENTATECILIATE
  Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.
• Hairsplitting
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Pointal
  The pistil of a plant.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• Toothbrush
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• DENTATESINUATE
  Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.
• Hairspring
  The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Toothdrawer
  One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
• HAIRSALT
  A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
• Hairstreak
  A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).
• Point-device
  Alt. of Point-devise

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