adjective
- having teeth or tooth-like projections along the edge
Usage: botanical; anatomical
Examples
- The dentate leaves of the elm tree have serrated edges.
- Dentate margins are common in many deciduous trees.
- The botanist identified the plant by its dentate leaf structure.
- Dentate gyrus is a part of the brain’s hippocampus.
- The fossil showed dentate bone formations.
- Many fern species have dentate fronds.