denticulated

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denticulated (not comparable)

  1. Denticulate, having many small toothlike protrusions.
    • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
      A fine-scale denticulated molding in the cornice, repeated elsewhere in the exterior wood trim, lends an air of exceptional richness and refinement.
  2. (heraldry, of a bordure, very rare) Embattled, but with only the projecting portions visible, so that the bordure appears non-contiguous (but the spaces are part of the field, unlike compony).

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