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  

/ əˈpɒfɪsɪs /

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

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 lemurian apophysis already alluded to is not uncommon.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Gina Lombroso

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 human bones, of indeterminate race, included an upper left maxillary, still retaining three teeth, an incomplete mastoid apophysis, and seven pieces of crania, belonging to different individuals.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers

Cones from 5 to 7 cm. long, subglobose or short-ovate, symmetrical, persistent, serotinous; apophyses lustrous tawny yellow, slightly elevated along a transverse keel, the umbo forming the broad base of a slender, rather fragile prickle.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

The species is best recognized by the prolonged apophyses of its large cone.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

Cones from 4 to 6 cm. long, subsessile, symmetrical, deciduous the third year, leaving a few basal scales on the tree; apophyses sublustrous, nut-brown, somewhat thickened along a transverse keel.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

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

Cones deciduous, from 8 to 15 cm. long, subcylindrical, often curved, the peduncle short; apophyses tawny yellow, prominently and abruptly convex, the umbo against the scale beneath; seed-wing long.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw