"serrous" meaning in English

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          "text": "The silhouetted treeline gave the horizon a serrous appearance.",
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          "ref": "1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "if while they hum we lay our finger on the back or other parts, for thereupon will be felt a serrous or jarring motion, like that which happeneth while we blow on the teeth of a comb through paper",
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          "ref": "1859, John D. Bryant, Redemption: A Poem, Philadelphia: John Penington & Son, page 57:",
          "text": "Now bending, rising, rolling to the blast, Now serrous rustling to th' inconstant breeze...",
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          "ref": "1871, Rev. Titus Coan, “On Kilauea and Mauna Loa”, in The American Journal of Science (III), volume 2, number 12, page 454:",
          "text": "The central and convex part had subsided some four hundred feet, forming a vast concave, and leaving a high, serrous, black ledge around the circumference of the crater.",
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          "ref": "1932, Bertha Raffetto, “A Mountain Storm”, in Westward: A Magazine of Verse, volume 2, number 10, page 15:",
          "text": "The thunder cannons loudly roared, And lightning lanced like pain, But staunch they stood, in serrous file; I saw no more for rain.",
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          "ref": "1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India, page 264:",
          "text": "A serrous bract subtends each floral bud. Occasionally a bracteole is also present.",
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          "text": "The asphalt was serrous, littered with glass.",
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        "Like the teeth of a saw; jagged."
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        "(rare) Like the teeth of a saw; jagged."
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