Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
crenelated .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Same as
crenate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
crenate
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Examples
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With these words Mr. Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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With these words Mr. Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters.
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Built with sun-dried bricks and hewn stone, crowned by a crenelled parapet, and defended by huge, massive doors, it could have sustained a siege from an enemy more expert in strategy than the tribe of Apaches who were its neighbours.
Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Mayne Reid 1850
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"_Quien viva_!" came the sonorous hail of a sentinel from the crenelled parapet.
The Tiger Hunter Mayne Reid 1850
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