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Dentated   Listen
adjective
Dentated, Dentate  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.
2.
(Zool.) Having teeth or toothlike points.





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"Dentated" Quotes from Famous Books



... recesses of this primitive-seeming sanctuary I found a branch of the Ampelopsis quinquefolia, our Virginia creeper, which I had fondly believed a native of America, painted with the utmost fidelity five hundred years before America was heard of, its five dentated leaves and jointed sprays in colors as rich as the masses we had seen trailing over the marble banisters of the villas on Lake Como, dyeing the pellucid water with their scarlet shadows. Throughout the church everything speaks of early times: the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various


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