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sawtooth

/saw-tooth/US // ˈsɔˌtuθ //UK // (ˈsɔːˌtuːθ) //

锯齿,锯齿状,锯齿形,锯齿型

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural saw·teeth [saw-teeth]. /ˈsɔˌtiθ/.

    • : one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
    • : any of the small parallel roof structures forming a sawtooth roof.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a zigzag profile, similar to that of the cutting edge of a saw; sawtoothed; serrate: a sawtooth mountain range.

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Examples

  • There are banksia bushes with their sawtooth-edge leaves and dried seed cones like multiple jabbering mouths.

  • I had struck the trail of a single deer that was going down a short sawtooth point or a short spur of the main ridge.

  • The next day Jack Sawtooth showed up, tired out, fresh from the wilderness.

  • There were many such, for the Sawtooth, powerful and stern against outlawry, tolerated no pilfering from their thousands.

  • As to the Sawtooth, forty thousand acres comprised their holdings under patents, deeds and long-time leases from the government.

  • It had grown to be second nature,—and it had made him a good man for the Sawtooth Cattle Company to have on its pay roll.