septate

American  

[sep-teyt] / ˈsɛp teɪt /

adjective

Biology.

1. divided by a septum or septa.

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septate British  

/ ˈsɛpteɪt /

adjective

1. divided by septa

   a septate plant ovary

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Other Word Forms

• multiseptate adjective
• nonseptate adjective
• pseudomultiseptate adjective
• subseptate adjective

Etymology

Origin of septate

First recorded in 1840–50; sept(um) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Pod 1–several-seeded, septate within between the seeds.—Herbs or shrubs, mostly canescent with appressed hairs fixed by the middle, with odd-pinnate faintly-nerved leaves, and pink or purplish flowers in naked axillary spikes.

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The nucleus is always lodged in the endoplasm, and, in the septate forms, in the deutomeritic half of the body.

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Thallus septate; spores developed in special type of sporangium, the ascus, the number of spores being usually eight.

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Eumycetes, or Higher Fungi, a common name for those Fungi which possess a septate mycelium.

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The septate spores had from two to four divisions, many of them divided again by cross septa in the longitudinal direction of the spore, so as to impart a muriform appearance.

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