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.
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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 inverse ratio of seven to one for a catalogue value would make the perforated stamp list $42 with the imperforate at $6.
From The Stamps of Canada by Poole, Bertram William Henry
The labels were normally perforated the usual 12, but the same journal for April 13, 1892 reports that a whole sheet had been seen in an imperforate condition.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong
Yet the catalog value of the latter is $2.50 against 36 cents for the wove paper imperforate alone.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong
In optical section "bubble-cells" have a certain resemblance to porocytes, but the cell is of course imperforate and not flattened.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
Another, weighing 200 grams on February 3, 1952, still was imperforate, but by February 27 she was perforate and appeared to be in oestrus.
From Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana by Fitch, Henry S.
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