crenated
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Like all of its class, it is flat-roofed; but the parapet is crenated, and small ornamental turrets over the angles and the great gateway relieve the monotony of its outlines.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
Valves 8, including a small, often rudimentary rostrum and a pair of small latera: lines of growth finely crenated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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 Sir James Emerson Tennent
This rounded summit, and the ridge of Galipano crenated like a wall, are the only objects which in this basin of gneiss and mica-slate impress a peculiar character on the landscape.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
He was not a sentinel, though at opposite angles of the building two of these could be seen who carried carbines—their heads and shoulders just appearing above the crenated top of the battlement towers.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
