denticulate

1. 1.

   having a very finely toothed margin

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Questions about denticulate

What does denticulate mean?

denticulate means "having a very finely toothed margin".

How many syllables are in denticulate?

denticulate has 4 syllables and divides as den-ti-cu-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is denticulate a common word?

denticulate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.