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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Finely toothed or notched; minutely dentate.
  • adjective Architecture Having dentils.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Finely dented; edged with minute tooth-like projections: as, a denticulate leaf, calyx, etc.
  • In architecture, formed into dentils.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany, zoology Finely dentate, as a leaf edge; bearing many small toothlike structures.
  • adjective architecture Having dentils.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a very finely toothed margin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin denticulātus, from denticulus, denticle; see denticle.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin denticulātus.

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