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serrate

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serrate [′se‚rāt]
(biology)
Possessing a notched or toothed edge.
(geology)
Pertaining to topographic features having a notched or toothed edge, or a saw-edge profile.


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The leaves are hairless, alternate and divided into three to five pointed lobes with crenate or serrate edges.
Asplenium cariocanum Brade, which is ecologically similar in habitat, differs in having fringed stem scales with pronounced dark teeth, pinnae with lobately serrate margins and nearly symmetric pinnae bases that are usually auriculate.
 
 
 
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