imperforate
Americanadjective
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Also imperforated not perforate; having no perforation.
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Philately. (of a number of stamps joined together) lacking the perforations usually separating individual stamps.
noun
adjective
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not perforated
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imperf. (of a postage stamp) not provided with perforation or any other means of separation Compare perforate
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anatomy (of a bodily part, such as the anus) without the normal opening
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The stamp is nearly square, and the specimens possessed by our correspondent are imperforate.
From Gambia by Frederick John Melville
On the early imperforate stamps we find a similar postmark in black, but lettered "Gambia" above and "Unpaid" below.
From Gambia by Frederick John Melville
All values are known entirely imperforate, the 3c in this condition being first recorded in the Philatelic Record for December, 1882.
From The Stamps of Canada by Bertram William Henry Poole
It is a fact that he is "collected" like postage-stamps, though no published work of his has attained the price per copy of the imperforate twopenny Mauritius of 1847.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
Rhabdamminina, rab-da-mi-nī′na, n. a group of marine imperforate foraminiferous protozoans.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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