ppl. a.
1. Bot., Zool., etc. = CRENATE a.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 115/1. Crenated Leaves [are] such as are jagged and notched.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), IV. xxxviii. 39. The margin of the lips is crenated.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), I. 83. Flat plate beads … which occasionally are crenated.
† 2. = CRENELLATED. Obs. rare.
1822. J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1857), I. 401. Crenated battlements.
