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Crenation

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Noun

1. crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop

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.)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crenation

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noun
1. 
any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
2. 
a crenate formation or condition

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Crenation

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noun
1. 
the condition of being crenate
2. 
a crenate formation
; specif.,
a. 
a crenature (sense 1)
b. 
the shrunken, notched appearance of a red blood cell, as when exposed to extremely salty solutions

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crenation

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n.
1. A rounded projection, as on the margin of a shell.
2. The condition or state of being crenate.
3. A process resulting from osmosis in which red blood cells, in a hypertonic solution, undergo shrinkage and acquire a notched or scalloped surface.

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