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CRENELLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
Synonyms:
crenel; crenelle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crenelle" is a kind of...):
space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))
Holonyms ("crenelle" is a part of...):
battlement; crenelation; crenellation (a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns)
Derivation:
crenelate; crenellate (supply with battlements)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
Synonyms:
crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("crenelle" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
