crenated

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The form of the shell also is shorter; but the general contour, and particularly the crenated mouth, common to both, clearly proves it can be considered only as a distinct variety.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

The paddi-field leech of Ceylon, used for surgical purposes, has the dorsal surface of blackish olive, with several longitudinal striæ, more or less defined; the crenated margin yellow.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Terga like a battle-axe, with the edge crenated and a spike behind; the handle narrower than the occludent segment of the scuta.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The apple-tree as cultivated is a moderate-sized tree with spreading branches, ovate, acutely serrated or crenated leaves, and flowers in corymbs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

They are however nothing but contraction forms of the poikilocytes, as the crenated are of the normal corpuscles.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.