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▪ I. ‖ serra1|ˈsɛrə|
Pl. serræ.
[L. = saw, saw-fish.]
1. a. A fabulous marine monster.
The first quot. is doubtful.
c1450J. Metham Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 44/1177 The qwyche dragan, serra men calle. c1520Andrew Noble Lyfe iii. lxxii. in Babees Bk., Serra is a fysshe with great tethe, and on his backe he hathe sharpe fynnes lyke the combe of a cocke and iagged lyke a sawe. 1845Archæol. Album (ed. T. Wright) 183 Among the monsters of the deep one of the most remarkable was the serra or serre... When a serre sees a ship, the bestiaries tell us, it flies up.
b. A saw-fish.
1854Badham Halieut. 418 The larger and fiercer the adversary, the more ardently does the serra desire to join battle.
c. The fish Alepisaurus serra, found on the coast of California.
1896Jordan & Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. i. 597.
2. Dentation resembling the teeth of a saw, as of the edge of a leaf, the sutures of the skull; pl. the ‘teeth’ of a serrated edge.
1800Phil. Trans. XC. 435 This has a serrated edge; but the serrae are confined to the soft part, not extending to the membrane covering the bone. 1866Treas. Bot., Serra, Serratures, the saw-toothings at the edge of leaves and similar bodies. 1898Jordan & Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. ii. 1285 Serræ of preopercle at angle blunt.
▪ II. ‖ serra2|ˈsɛra|
[Pg.:—L. serra saw. Cf. sierra.]
A ridge of mountains or hills (in Portuguese territory).
1830Portugal; or Yng. Travellers 152 The burra-drivers kept shouting vociferously, to deter, they said, the wolves from coming down the serra. 1846G. Gardner Brazil 308 The storm..passing over a high Serra..again altered its course. 1853A. R. Wallace Amazon & Rio Negro 147 The great marsh which extends from the Amazon to the serras. |