serrous

Latin serra (“a saw”), +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɹəs/

serrous (comparative more serrous, superlative most serrous)

1. (rare) Like the teeth of a saw; jagged.

   The silhouetted treeline gave the horizon a serrous appearance.

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     if while they hum we lay our finger on the back or other parts, for thereupon will be felt a serrous or jarring motion, like that which happeneth while we blow on the teeth of a comb through paper

   • 1859, John D. Bryant, Redemption: A Poem‎^[1], Philadelphia: John Penington & Son, page 57:

     Now bending, rising, rolling to the blast, Now serrous rustling to th' inconstant breeze...

   • 1871, Rev. Titus Coan, “On Kilauea and Mauna Loa”, in The American Journal of Science (III)‎^[2], volume 2, number 12, page 454:

     The central and convex part had subsided some four hundred feet, forming a vast concave, and leaving a high, serrous, black ledge around the circumference of the crater.

   • 1932, Bertha Raffetto, “A Mountain Storm”, in Westward: A Magazine of Verse, volume 2, number 10, page 15:

     The thunder cannons loudly roared, And lightning lanced like pain, But staunch they stood, in serrous file; I saw no more for rain.

   • 1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India, page 264:

     A serrous bract subtends each floral bud. Occasionally a bracteole is also present.

   • 2013, Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely: A Novel‎^[3], Graywolf Press:

     The asphalt was serrous, littered with glass.

• “serrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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