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septate

American  
[sep-teyt] / ˈsɛp teɪt /

adjective

Biology.
  1. divided by a septum or septa.


septate British  
/ ˈsɛpteɪt /

adjective

  1. divided by septa

    a septate plant ovary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of septate

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

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Sometimes the spores are simple, in other cases septate, and in Sporochisma are at first produced in an investing cell.

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

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

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Protobasidiomycetes.—This, by far the smaller division of Basidiomycetes, includes those forms which have a septate basidium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

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.

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

At first continuous, then septate, these cells by their union constitute a cellular tissue, which increases little by little until the scolecite is so closely enveloped that only its superior extremity can be seen.

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

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