Definition of Dissepiments

1. Noun. (plural of dissepiment) ¹

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Definition of Dissepiments

1. dissepiment [n] - See also: dissepiment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissepiments

dissenterism
dissenters
dissentient
dissentients
dissenting
dissenting(a)
dissenting opinion
dissentingly
dissention
dissentions
dissentious
dissentiously
dissentive
dissents
dissepiment
dissepiments (current term)
dissert
dissertate
dissertated
dissertates
dissertating
dissertation
dissertational
dissertationist
dissertationists
dissertations
dissertator
dissertators
disserted
disserting

Literary usage of Dissepiments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"The dissepiments are extremely thin and delicate transverse partitions which ... The distance apart of two adjacent dissepiments in a loculus represents a ..."

2. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"by dissepiments (85, с ) into many cells. The central pillar, or substance formed by the united placentae is called the coin- mella. ..."

3. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"dissepiments marginal. — Don, Miller's Diet. genus Kalmia consists of low evergreen shrubs, highly ornamental in their foliage and flowers ; natives of ..."

4. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... at times constricted opposite the dissepiments, filled with a ... at times slightly constricted opposite the dissepiments, filled with a granular ..."

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