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

For this purpose he selected the septate resting spores from Poa pratensis and Triticum repens.

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

The sarcocyte alone constitutes the septum, traversing the endoplasm, in septate Gregarines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Spores hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-guttulate, 18–20�10–11; 1-serrate; paraphyses septate, clavate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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

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

Basidiospores continuous or rarely septate, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth or roughened, hyaline or colored, borne singly at the apex of sterigmata.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis