serrous

comparative more serrous · superlative most serrous

1. rareLike the teeth of a saw; jagged.

   The silhouetted treeline gave the horizon a serrous appearance.

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   if while they hum we lay our finger on the back or other parts, for thereupon will be felt a serrous or jarring motion, like that which happeneth while we blow on the teeth of a comb through paper

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

   Now bending, rising, rolling to the blast, Now serrous rustling to th' inconstant breeze...

   1859, John D. Bryant, Redemption: A Poem, Philadelphia: John Penington & Son, page 57

   The central and convex part had subsided some four hundred feet, forming a vast concave, and leaving a high, serrous, black ledge around the circumference of the crater.

   1871, Rev. Titus Coan, “On Kilauea and Mauna Loa”, in The American Journal of Science (III), volume 2, number 12, page 454

   The thunder cannons loudly roared, And lightning lanced like pain, But staunch they stood, in serrous file; I saw no more for rain.

   1932, Bertha Raffetto, “A Mountain Storm”, in Westward: A Magazine of Verse, volume 2, number 10, page 15

   A serrous bract subtends each floral bud. Occasionally a bracteole is also present.

   1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India, page 264