Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having teeth resembling the teeth of a saw.
- adjective Having a jagged or zigzag pattern, outline, or course; serrate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serrate; having serrations like the teeth of a saw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
jagged edge like asaw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
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Examples
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The crests of the walls were saw-toothed, volcanic peaks, capped. and halo'd with captive trade-wind clouds.
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Farther back, the dry and bony mountains rise to their saw-toothed crests, intricately folded and overlapping.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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His babies are weeks away from bulking up and setting the bizarre clusters of mind-altering flower buds, but even in youth the lobed leaves, slender and saw-toothed, are distinctive, iconic, ominous.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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And I admit that these sleek, saw-toothed monsters hold peculiar sway over the human psyche, especially when you're in water over your head.
In the Coral Camp Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Farther back, the dry and bony mountains rise to their saw-toothed crests, intricately folded and overlapping.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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It is like a weapon—flattened into a saw-toothed, pointed blade on which two eyes are vertically aligned.
A Rare Look at a Career's Missing Link Michael Fitzgerald 2011
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No birds visit now and the tan-coloured leaves shaped like saw-toothed hearts hang limp.
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She searches the bright white bathroom for something to clean it up with, and under the sink, she finds an apple corer with saw-toothed blades.
The Hattercap and the Comic Book Artist Megan Arkenberg 2010
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She searches the bright white bathroom for something to clean it up with, and under the sink, she finds an apple corer with saw-toothed blades.
Archive 2010-03-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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He fed plastic wrap through a slot in the lid, which he tucked next to a strip of saw-toothed metal.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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