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鋸歯
きょしのこぎりば
1. [n] [form]
▶ teeth of a saw
▶ saw teeth
▶ serration
2. (きょし only) [n] {botany}
▶ serration (of a leaf)



History:
2. A 2025-07-02 19:57:22  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2025-07-01 13:59:04  Sombrero1
  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/鋸歯
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
  Comments:
Restriction on sense 2 is needed
  Diff:
@@ -13,3 +12,0 @@
-<r_ele>
-<reb>のこば</reb>
-</r_ele>
@@ -17,0 +15 @@
+<misc>&form;</misc>
@@ -18,0 +17 @@
+<gloss>saw teeth</gloss>
@@ -20,0 +20,6 @@
+<sense>
+<stagr>きょし</stagr>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&bot;</field>
+<gloss>serration (of a leaf)</gloss>
+</sense>

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