serrated, a. Chiefly scientific.
(ˈsɛreɪtɪd, sɛˈreɪtɪd)
[f. L. serrāt-us serrate + -ed.]
= serrate a.
| 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland 156 The Leaves are..like the top Leaves of Bardana major... In the Figure they are represented too stiff and too much serrated. 1768 Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) II. 469 The bill is..finely toothed, or serrated. 1802 Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 72 Serrated Tortoise. 1825 Scott Talism. xxviii, A serrated and rocky mountain. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 645/2 The ligamentum dentatum (serrated membrane of Gordon). 1851 Mayne Reid Scalp Hunters xi, That white spheroidal mass, with its grinning rows and serrated sutures, that is a human skull. 1878 H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. xvi. 430 Bare and serrated hilly ridges. |