Crenation. World English Historical Dictionary

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Bot., Zool., etc. [f. CRENATE: see -ATION.] A crenated formation; a rounded toothing, e.g., on the margin of a leaf or shell; scalloping; a crenature.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 490. The polyps … have twelve short tentacles … in some species they are mere crenations to the disk.

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1875.  H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 317. A well-marked stellar crenation.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 376. In many teeth and crenations of the leaf.

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