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sawteeth

sawteeth is the plural of sawtooth.

Meaning of sawtooth

Noun (1)

sawtooth (plural sawteeth)

  1. A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
    • Holonyms: sawblade < saw
  2. (attributive, often) Something else that is shaped like such a tooth (for example, a roof or each peaked portion thereof; a curve or waveform on a graph).

Noun (2)

sawtooth (plural sawtooths)

  1. A sawtooth wave.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
  3. A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
  4. The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.

Questions about sawteeth

What is sawteeth the plural of?
Sawteeth is the plural of sawtooth.

Words near sawteeth in the dictionary

  1. sawsmith
  2. sawsmiths
  3. Sawston
  4. sawt
  5. sawtail
  6. sawteeth
  7. Sawtell
  8. Sawtelle
  9. Sawtelles
  10. sawtimber
  11. sawtimbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sawteeth (page history and authors); sawtooth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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