sawlike

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The leaves, which are just coming out, are two or three inches long and about half as wide; they taper to a point and have serrate, or sawlike, edges.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

It was a frightful mouth, armed with huge rows of sawlike teeth, and although they knew the brute was dead the boys could not repress a shudder as they looked at it.

From The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Davenport, Spencer

And his song, as he climbed over me, was squeaky and sawlike, and as he walked he doddered, head trembling as an old man's shakes in final acquiescence in the futility of life.

From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William

He pointed at the far crest of the sawlike highlands, where now he thought to see a hazy, floating pall of dust.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan

Far inland, and tinged light-blue by distance, rose the sharp, jagged, and sawlike crests of El-Sharaf, under which the Hajj-caravan wends its weary way, thus escaping the mountains which dip perpendicularly into the sea.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir