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Septifragal :: Septifragal (a.) 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..

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata..

Honesty :: Honesty (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty..

Mesentery :: Mesentery (n.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

Interauricular :: Interauricular (a.) Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart..

Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..

Bipartition :: Bipartition (n.) The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided..

Apartment :: Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions..

Perimysium :: Perimysium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns..

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral..

Thurl :: Thurl (v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another..

Partitioned :: Partitioned (imp. & p. p.) of Partitio.

Partition :: Partition (v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions..

Taeniola :: Taeniola (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

Septum :: Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

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