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sawtooths

sawtooths 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.

Proper noun capitalized: Sawtooths

the Sawtooths pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A small mountain range in southern San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Questions about sawtooths

What does sawtooths mean?
Sawtooths means a small mountain range in southern San Bernardino County, California, United States.
What is sawtooths the plural of?
Sawtooths is the plural of sawtooth.
What part of speech is sawtooths?
Sawtooths is a proper noun.

Words near sawtooths in the dictionary

  1. sawtooth kerb
  2. sawtooth wave
  3. sawtooth waves
  4. sawtoothed
  5. sawtoothlike
  6. sawtooths
  7. sawtries
  8. sawtry
  9. Sawut
  10. Sawvel
  11. sawwhet

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