DENTATE, DENTATED, adjective Toothed; notched. In botany, a dentated root is one that consists of a concatenation of joints, resembling a necklace. A dentate leaf is one that has horizontal points, with a space between each, or points in the plane of the disk, or having points like teeth on the margin.
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