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denticulate

[den-tik-yuh-lit, -layt] / dɛnˈtɪk jə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


ADJECTIVE
serrate
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Involucral leaves usually 4, 2-lobed, the margin ciliate or denticulate; perianth somewhat oval, compressed, bilabiate, incised or entire.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Beak incurvated as if broken, denticulate; feet webbed: 1 species.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

Stem with 2 to 4 pairs of opposite scales or buds below the compound leaves; leaflets glabrous, entire or denticulate J. regia 1.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Leaves.—Three or four inches long; denticulate; the upper mostly rounded at base.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Achenes short, 3–4-sided, or in the disk laterally flattened, roughened on the sides, hairy at the summit; pappus none, or an obscure denticulate crown.—An annual rough herb, with slender stems and opposite leaves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray




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