septarium
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septaria
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Origin of septarium
First recorded in 1775–85; from New Latin sēptārium, equivalent to Latin sēpt(um) “enclosure” ( see septum) + -ārium -arium
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About the tropics of the large septarium above mentioned, are circular eminent lines, such as might have been left if it had been coarsely turned in a lathe.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
Five layers of large ferruginous concretions, somewhat like the septaria of the London clay, have occasioned a resistance at this point, to which we may ascribe this headland.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
There are also Panopæa intermedia, and in septaria Pinna affinis.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
In Alum Bay the London clay, about 400 ft. in thickness, consists of clays, chiefly dark blue, with sands, and lines of septaria.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
The interior part is generally fissured by minute cracks or septaria, which are lined, both by black, metallic, and by other white and crystalline specks, the nature of which I was unable to ascertain.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
He called some well-characterized species of septaria in my cabinet pudding-stone, beautiful specimens of limpid hexagonal crystals of quartz, common quartz, &c.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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