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Webster 1913 Edition


Septifragal

Sep-tif′ra-gal

,
Adj.
[
Septum
+ L.
frangere
,
fractum
, to break.]
(Bot.)
Breaking from the partitions; – said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.

Definition 2024


septifragal

septifragal

English

Adjective

septifragal (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Breaking from the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the common axis.