serrous

English

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Etymology

Latin serra (“a saw”), +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɹəs/

Adjective

serrous (comparative more serrous, superlative most serrous)

(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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “serrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Rousers, rousers, sourers