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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Septum \[d8]Sep"tum\, n.; pl. {Septa}. [L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure, hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in, inclose.] 1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum. 2. (Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. (b) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under {Nautilus}. (c) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid. | |
