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A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
- Holonyms: sawblade < saw
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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).attributiveoften
sawtooth
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Level C2
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A sawtooth wave.
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Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
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A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
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The military barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae.