Adjective: serrous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more serrous |
| Superlative | most serrous |
Sample Sentences
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The silhouetted treeline gave the horizon a serrous appearance.
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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 [1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:]
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Now bending, rising, rolling to the blast, Now serrous rustling to th' inconstant breeze... [1859, John D. Bryant, Redemption: A Poem, Philadelphia: John Penington & Son, page 57:]
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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. [1871, Rev. Titus Coan, “On Kilauea and Mauna Loa”, in The American Journal of Science (III), volume 2, number 12, page 454:]
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The thunder cannons loudly roared, And lightning lanced like pain, But staunch they stood, in serrous file; I saw no more for rain. [1932, Bertha Raffetto, “A Mountain Storm”, in Westward: A Magazine of Verse, volume 2, number 10, page 15:]
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A serrous bract subtends each floral bud. Occasionally a bracteole is also present. [1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India, page 264:]
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The asphalt was serrous, littered with glass. [2013, Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely: A Novel, Graywolf Press:]
Adjectives inflected like serrous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Latin serra (“a saw”), + -ous.