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What does sawlike mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sawlike? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling a saw (cutting tool) or some aspect of one.
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The heavily serrated blades were sawlike, allowing them to be used for carving and cutting horn, bone, and wood.
The kit was novel for its scrapers and heavily serrated blades having a sawlike appearance, implements that were essential to the working of wood, bone, and horn into tools and weapons.
These sawlike ridges are made up of equilateral triangles, but often they contain bent and irregular teeth.
Sawflies, which are phytophagous, lay their eggs in incisions in plants, cut by the sawlike blades of the ovipositor.
The adults emerge in early September and, soon afterward, the female lays her eggs in slits in the needles with her sawlike ovipositor.
Using your thumbs and index fingers as guides, gently slide the floss between two teeth, using a sawlike motion.

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