dissected
Americanadjective
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Botany. deeply divided into numerous segments, as a leaf.
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Physical Geography. separated, by erosion, into many closely spaced crevices or gorges, as the surface of a plateau.
adjective
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botany in the form of narrow lobes or segments
dissected leaves
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geology (of plains) cut by erosion into hills and valleys, esp following tectonic movements
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Dissected, both arguments against such a requirement are flimsy.
From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2017
Dissected in any way — hitting with two strikes, with runners in scoring position, bases empty — Harper excelled.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015
Dissected this week are two particularly grisly fires, one in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1990, and another in 2007 in Glassboro, New Jersey.
From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2013
Scientology, Dissected Clinically In “Going Clear,” Lawrence Wright uses vast research and reporting to make clear that Scientology is like no church on Earth.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2013
Which surely cannot be, if, as the author of The Dunciad Dissected reporteth, 'Mr Wycherley had before introduced him into a familiar acquaintance with the greatest peers and brightest wits then living.'
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George
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