combining form of mod.L. crēnātus CRENATE; crenately, crenate-.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., vii. (1858), 124. Leaves … doubly and evenly crenato-serrate.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 304. It is represented as crenato-denticulate [= crenately-toothed].

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 346. Crenato-serrate, when serratures are convex, and not straight.

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