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

In Coleosporium there are two kinds of spores, one kind consisting of pulverulent single cells, and the other of elongated septate cells, which break up into obovate joints.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

It is probable that, in all of these, as is known to be the case in most, the septate pseudospores are preceded or accompanied by simple pseudospores, to which they are mysteriously related.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

As a rule, the sporidia are more elongated, more commonly septate, and more usually coloured, than in Elvellacei.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

In Discosia there is a single oblique bristle at each end, or at the side of the septate spores, whilst in Neottiospora a tuft of delicate hairs is found at one extremity only.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

P. cylindr. apex rounded, white, densely covered with septate acute white hairs, then exp. and centre almost glabrous and yellowish, edge slightly striate; s. slender, pubescent, base floccose; sp. 9-12 � 6-7. exstinctorius, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George