apophysis

American  

[uh-pof-uh-sis] / əˈpɒf ə sɪs /

noun

• apophyses
  plural

1. Anatomy, Botany. an outgrowth; process; projection or protuberance.

2. Architecture. apophyge.

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apophysis British  

/ -seɪt, əˈpɒfɪsɪs, əˈpɒfɪsɪt, ˌæpəˈfɪzɪəl /

noun

1. a process, outgrowth, or swelling from part of an animal or plant

2. geology a tapering offshoot from a larger igneous intrusive mass

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• apophysary
  adjective
• apophysate
  adjective
• apophyseal
  adjective
• apophysial
  adjective
• interapophyseal
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• apophyses
  plural

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

Example Sentences

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apophysis apophyses

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 George Russell Shaw

Cones from 15 to 25 cm. long, narrow-cylindrical; apophyses tawny yellow or pale fulvous brown, prominently convex, the umbo against the apophysis beneath; seeds with a long wing.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

Every cavity, apophysis, and curvature was imitated, and each bone executed its proper movements.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe

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 George Vasey

The cone is very variable on trees of the same grove, both in size and in the protuberance of its apophyses.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

Cones from 5 to 8 cm. long, reflexed, ovate, symmetrical, deciduous; apophyses nut-brown, lustrous, flat or tumid, the umbo often thin and, together with the slender prickle, bent sharply downward.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

Cones not exceeding 7 cm. in length, symmetrical, pendent on slender peduncles, ovate-conic, early deciduous; apophyses sublustrous, nut-brown, tumid at the margins, flat on the surface, the umbo large, the mucro rarely persistent.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

One side bears ridges leading to the extremities of the apophyses, and faint crenulations on the median process.

From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols

Cones from 5 to 8 cm. long, short-pedunculate, erect or patulous; ovate-conic, symmetrical; apophyses rufous brown, low-pyramidal, the umbo mutic.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw