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septate

[ sep-teyt ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. divided by a septum or septa.


septate

/ ˈɛٱɪ /

adjective

  1. divided by septa

    a septate plant ovary

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ܱt·tٱ adjective
  • ԴDz·tٱ adjective
  • pseudo·ܱt·tٱ adjective
  • ܲ·tٱ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of septate1

First recorded in 1840–50; sept(um) + -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of septate1

C19: from New Latin ٳܲ having a septum
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Example Sentences

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Pod 1–several-seeded, septate within between the seeds.—Herbs or shrubs, mostly canescent with appressed hairs fixed by the middle, with odd-pinnate faintly-nerved leaves, and pink or purplish flowers in naked axillary spikes.

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The nucleus is always lodged in the endoplasm, and, in the septate forms, in the deutomeritic half of the body.

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Thallus septate; spores developed in special type of sporangium, the ascus, the number of spores being usually eight.

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Eumycetes, or Higher Fungi, a common name for those Fungi which possess a septate mycelium.

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The septate spores had from two to four divisions, many of them divided again by cross septa in the longitudinal direction of the spore, so as to impart a muriform appearance.

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