Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having seven parts, as a compound leaf with seven leaflets springing from one point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.
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- adjective botany Having
seven parts
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Examples
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"I will not abate a hair's breadth of the septenate," said he.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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Buildings, entrances, everything visible -- all replicated, reiterated, repeated infinite variations in the one theme, that of the septenate stelliform.
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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