<entry id="2343202" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1232950</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>鋸歯</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>きょし</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>のこぎりば</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&form;</misc>
<gloss>teeth of a saw</gloss>
<gloss>saw teeth</gloss>
<gloss>serration</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<stagr>きょし</stagr>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<field>&bot;</field>
<gloss>serration (of a leaf)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2025-07-01 13:59:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Restriction on sense 2 is needed</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Sankoku and Meikyo have [form] for sense 1
GG5, Sankoku, 岩波 生物学辞典 第4版, etc. have sense 2

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 鋸歯 │ 55.939 │100.0% │
╰─ーー─┴────────┴───────╯

https://furigana.info/w/%E9%8B%B8%E6%AD%AF
読み方	    割合
ーーーーーーーーーーー
きょし	    71.4%
きよし	    14.3%
のこぎりば   14.3%


のこば is only in koj and big nikkoku, really an abbreviation of のこぎりば. Dropping</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,3 +12,0 @@
-&lt;r_ele&gt;
-&lt;reb&gt;のこば&lt;/reb&gt;
-&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -17,0 +15 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;form;&lt;/misc&gt;
@@ -18,0 +17 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;saw teeth&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -20,0 +20,6 @@
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;stagr&gt;きょし&lt;/stagr&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;bot;&lt;/field&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;serration (of a leaf)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-07-02 19:57:22" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>