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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as dentate.

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  • adjective dentate

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Examples

  • It is semicircular in shape, sharp, and finely dentated, and is perforated by eight to ten large foraminæ.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Their margin is stained with purple, and a little dentated or toothed in some cases, but not in all.

    The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

  • —The sagittal border, the longest and thickest, is dentated and articulates with its fellow of the opposite side, forming the sagittal suture.

    II. Osteology. 5a. 2. The Parietal Bone 1918

  • —The auricula is a small conical muscular pouch, the margins of which present a dentated edge.

    V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart 1918

  • Basin of Galisteo is bounded by a low and shaggy ridge running from east to west, whose crest is formed of trap-dyke sharply though irregularly dentated.

    The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

  • Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • Above them was a mighty swarm of creepers which leaped aloft in a few bounds; jasmines starred with balmy flowers; wistarias with delicate lacelike leaves; dense ivy, dentated and resembling varnished metal; lithe honeysuckle, laden with pale coral sprays; amorous clematideae, reaching out arms all tufted with white aigrettes.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • "On each flank there is a band of stiff closely-set bristles, from between which, during the rutting season, exudes an odorous fluid, the product of a peculiar gland" (_Cuvier_); the two middle superior incisors are hooked and dentated at the base, the lower ones slanted and elongated; five small teeth follow the larger incisors on the upper jaw, and two those on the lower.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Another variety is often red, with a black breast and single dentated comb.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Another variety is often red, with a black breast and single dentated comb.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

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