dentate serrate (dent at ser at)

In entom., both serrated and toothed: applied to a serrate margin when each projection or denticulation is toothed along its edge. dentate-sinuate (den'tāt-sin'u-āt), a. tom., having angular teeth with incurved spaces between them. dentation (den-ta's hon), n. [ How, in particular, did it get its barb - its dentation? Paley, Nat. Theol., xiii. 2. In entom., an angular projection of a margin: used especially in describing the wings of Lepidoptera. dented dented1 (den'ted), p. a. [ dentel, dent elated. See dentil, etc.