Word Meanings - SEPTUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. One

Additional info about word: SEPTUM

A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid. (more info) 1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

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• UNDERPLOT
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• FRUITAGE
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• CORALLUM
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