serration
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The initial singles, “Ch-Ching” and “Romeo,” have lush synth orchestration and hum-along hooks; the greatest appeal rests in the singer Caroline Polachek’s jazz-inflected vocals, which fascinate in their agile leaps and slightly mechanical serration.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2016
The mood was jittery, and their laughter had the frantic serration that came with near disaster.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Yellow Birch.—Bark yellow, separable into thin layers; leaves dull green above; serration coarser and more decidedly doubly serrate; fruiting catkins ovoid or oblong-ovoid; flavor of bark less distinctly aromatic.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low
Leaves healthy, medium in size; upper surface light green; lower surface grayish-white with a tinge of bronze, heavily pubescent; lobes wanting or three to five; petiolar sinus shallow, wide; serration shallow.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
On three sides, the unbroken serration of the Empire City's beehives stretched in a semicircle of twenty miles radius.
From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various