MEANING
Having teeth or toothlike projections along a structure or edge.
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- dentate margin
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The leaf had a dentate margin.
A dentate ridge bordered the opening.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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