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CRENATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
Synonyms:
crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("crenation" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
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