apophysis
Americannoun
plural
apophyses-
Anatomy, Botany. an outgrowth; process; projection or protuberance.
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Architecture. apophyge.
noun
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a process, outgrowth, or swelling from part of an animal or plant
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geology a tapering offshoot from a larger igneous intrusive mass
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Etymology
Origin of apophysis
1605–15; < New Latin < Greek: offshoot, equivalent to apo- apo- + phýsis growth, equivalent to phý ( ein ) to bring forth + -sis -sis
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The seta widens out at the base of the capsule into a region known as the apophysis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
An ordinary Cow, and a Bull without horns, will produce a calf resembling the male in appearance and character, without horns and without that particular prominence of the transverse apophysis of the frontal bone.
From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George
The apophysis was broken, and the extent of the fracture shows the great force of the blow.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.
No ctenidium, but a pulmonary cavity; operculum with an apophysis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
An examination of these pieces discovers adhesion only on a narrow ventral border under the apophysis and on a corresponding dorsal border back of the apophysis.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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