serrature

English

Etymology

Latin serratura (“a sawing”).

Noun

serrature (plural serratures)

  1. A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.
    • 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany
      When a ferrate leaf has small serratures upon the large ones , it is faid to be Doubly - ferrate
  2. One of the teeth in a serrated edge; a serration.

References
  • serrature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

serrature f

  1. plural of serratura

Latin

Participle

serrātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of serrātūrus
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