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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

dissaepimentum

, fr.

dissaepire

;

dis-

saepire

to hedge in, inclose.]

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

(Bot.)

One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

(Zool.)

One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.

Noun.

[L., to separate; to inclose or guard.] In botany, a partition in dry seed-vessels, as in capsules and pods, which separates the fruit into cells.

dissepiment ‎(plural dissepiments)