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not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect" progressive: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going fallible: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"
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| imperfect state |
the state characterised by the production of asexual spores (conidia) or by the absence of spores (Hawksworth et al., 1983); the anamorph. cf. perfect state.
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or incomplete metamorphose, is that species of change from the larva to the imago, in which the feet and wings of the pupa are immoveable, as in the Colooptera, Lepidopters, &c.
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(im-PER-fekt) -- an incompleat flower, lacking part or all of the reproductive structures, eg, without stamens.
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| imperfect |
The diamond imperfection grade at the low end of the
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