crenated

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The two spikes behind the cutting and crenated edges of the two terga, are blunt and almost touch each other; above their point of juncture, the membrane of the orifice forms a slight central protuberance.

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

Already manorial houses, crenated and often moated, but, like this one at Montaigne, defensive rather for show than the reality, were scattered over France.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison

They pretend that it has an area as large as Algiers, surrounded with a mud wall, twelve or fifteen feet high, and crenated.

From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by Richardson, James

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.

Bill elongated, thick, hollow, deflexed, the margins obtusely crenated, with excrescences of various forms placed on the upper mandible.

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