serrate

The color pink gets its name from flowers in the genus Dianthus, commonly known as carnations or pinks, a reference to the serrate, or “pinked,” edges of the delicate, sweetly fragrant flowers.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022

Even in their day, these reference-point songs weren’t quite serrate, or scabrous — they were the globular middle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

Or like a jagged, serrate viola through Shostakovich’s last, 15th, String Quartet – its abrasive intorsion like a barbed needle that speaks of desolation, exclusion from closure or repose.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2018

The most ornamented of any of the Wu-Tang Clan’s solo albums, GZA’s “Liquid Swords” is a fully realized universe of kung fu imagery, street-corner mythology and serrate rhymes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017

Marsh perennials, with serrate leaflets, the veins often running to the notches.

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

Worse still, it's at odds with the serrated edges of Abrams' lyrics.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

By 10 a.m., servers at the Geneva location were carrying in armfuls of coffee cups, bowls, serrated knives and silverware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Nearly half of patients who had serrated polyps were also found to have adenomas.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

At first only its serrated top breaches the low hills, as if surfacing for air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

With a serrated knife, she clipped the fins, then turned the fish over, its underbelly facing her, and sliced it expertly from the tail to the gills.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

When they got back in studio post-pandemic, they wanted to shake up their longstanding approach to tracking live instruments themselves, then serrating them digitally.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

Another Palisades pitcher prepares a knuckleball by serrating stripes on the bottom, so that it looks almost like a basketball.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018

Leagues beyond the shadowy hills serrating the purple horizon, it was lost like a bad dream yielding to the light of day.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum

From time to time the surface of the absorbent is renewed by serrating it with a comb-like instrument.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

The speed of the work was dependent upon the operative, as he determined by his lever movement the instant at which the automatic serrating hammer should be released.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg