crenation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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.)
    scallop; crenel; crenelle; crenature.

WordNet


Cre*na"tion noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
  2. The condition of being crenate.

Webster 1913