Definition of "serrulate" []

• Having a minutely serrate margin, as in a leaflet of the rose. (adjective)

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• "Besides, the sterile fronds of the latter have serrulate segments."
• "From the main leafstock grow several pairs of stalked pinnæ, with the divisions ovate-oblong, acutish, crenate-serrulate, obliquely cordate or subcordate."
• "Fronds pale green, one to six feet high; sterile part bipinnate, each pinna having numerous pairs of lance-oblong, serrulate pinnules alternate along the midrib."