saw-toothed
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˈsɔːˌtuːθd/
- Cactus, broom, and saw-toothed brumelia grow beside the roadbed, and silvery eucalyptus trees, native to Australia, grow in the temperate air of the valleys.
- saw-toothed leaves
- saw-toothed mountains
- saw-toothed edges
Examples
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The fence was topped with saw-toothed spikes that added an element of protection.
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The saw-toothed edges of the knife make it ideal for cutting through tough materials.
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A forest of smaller members, two or three feet long, surrounded a saw-toothed beak at the center of the assemblage.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unsheathes the saw-toothed knife. Sheathes it.
Fiction book (1996) -
The saw-toothed knife flies the length of the room and buries in Starling's neck.
Fiction book (1996) -
His crested helm hung from his saddle bow, alongside an ugly saw-toothed war hammer.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some ridges are "saw-toothed," while others are blunted and fused.
Academic text (2001) -
At first, the stranger was just a silhouette on the hill framed by the saw-toothed battlements of the Ford Rouge Plant.
Fiction book (1999) -
When Oppian refers to the wolf as "saw-toothed" and "bloody," he alludes, of course, to the fact that it is carnivorous. Though this could be taken as a mere statement of fact, natural historians, poets, and philosophers drew ethical lessons from it.
Academic text (1996) -
Vapor rose in patches out of the gorge where thirty feet below, water spilled noisily from conduits, flowing and steaming in a saw-toothed passage through ice.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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5.4
An edge with small teeth that point toward the tip
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3.9
Having a jagged edge with small points like teeth
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3.9
With edges that have small cuts or gaps
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5.5
Having small sharp teeth along the edge that cut or tear
Leaves with edges that have sharp points like teeth
An edge with small teeth like a saw
A jagged edge like a saw
Antonyms
How Jagged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Saw-toothed comes from the tool saw, known for its sharp 'teeth', and the word tooth, which means a small sharp point. So something saw-toothed has an edge with regular, tooth-like notches, like a saw blade or the edge of a leaf.