Definition of "saw-toothed" [saw•-toothed]

• Having teeth resembling the teeth of a saw: saw-toothed sharks. (adjective)
• Having a jagged or zigzag pattern, outline, or course; serrate: a saw-toothed mountain range; a sawtooth curve. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And I admit that these sleek, saw-toothed monsters hold peculiar sway over the human psyche, especially when you're in water over your head."
• "His babies are weeks away from bulking up and setting the bizarre clusters of mind-altering flower buds, but even in youth the lobed leaves, slender and saw-toothed, are distinctive, iconic, ominous."
• "It is like a weapon—flattened into a saw-toothed, pointed blade on which two eyes are vertically aligned."