crenation

noun

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.)

Roots

crenacren- · Latin · notch atio-ation · Latin · act/condition of

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