| sepal | <botany> A member of the (usually green) outer whorl of non-fertile parts surrounding the fertile organs of a flower. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| sepaled | <botany> Having one or more sepals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sepaline | <botany> Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sepalody | <botany> The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies. Origin: Sepal + Gr. Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sepaloid | <botany> Looking like sepals, for example of bracts, usually green and arranged in a ring beneath a flower. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sepalous | <botany> Having, or relating to, sepals; used mostly in composition. See Sepal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| separable | Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. Sep"arableness, Sep"arably, "Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold." (Boyle) Origin: L. Separabilis: cf. F. Separable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| separate | 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. "From the fine gold I separate the alloy." (Dryden) "Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." (Gen. Xiii. 9) "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (Rom. Viii. 35) 2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. 3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem." (Acts xiii. <botany> 2) Separated flowers, flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Origin: L. Separatus, p. P. Of separare to separate; pfref. Se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| separating | Designed or employed to separate. <chemistry> Separating funnel, a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| separating medium | Any coating which serves to prevent one surface from adhering to another, in dentistry, a material usually applied to a cast to facilitate separation from the resin denture base after curing; a coating on impressions to facilitate removal of the cast. (05 Mar 2000) |
| separating wire | A wire, usually of soft brass, used to gain separation between teeth. See: separation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| separation | The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation, a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage. Origin: L. Separatio: cf. F. Separation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| separation anxiety | A child's apprehension or fear associated with removal from or loss of a parent or significant other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| separation anxiety disorder | A mental disorder occurring in childhood characterised by excessive anxiety when the child is separated from someone to whom the child is attached, usually a parent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| separation of retina | <ophthalmology> A painless disorder (when spontaneous) where the patient complains of a gradual raising or lowering of a curtain over the visual field of the affected eye. May also occur as the result of trauma. (27 Sep 1997) |