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Crenulated vs Wavy - What's the difference?

crenulated | wavy |

As adjectives the difference between crenulated and wavy

is that crenulated is having indented, square notched battlements or crenelations while wavy is rising or swelling in waves.

As a noun wavy is

alternative form of lang=en goose.

crenulated

English

Alternative forms

* crenellated

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having indented, square notched battlements or crenelations.

    • wavy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rising or swelling in waves.
  • Full of waves.
  • Moving to and fro; undulating.
  • Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
  • (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
  • (heraldry) , in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

    • Etymology 2

    See wavey .

    Noun

    (wavies)
  • (goose).
  • * 1862 , in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history , volume 20, page 7835:
    • According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
  • * 1888 , in the Journals of the Senate of Canada , volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
    • The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.