septate

American  

[sep-teyt] / ˈsɛp teɪt /

adjective

Biology.

1. divided by a septum or septa.

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septate British  

/ ˈsɛpteɪt /

adjective

1. divided by septa

   a septate plant ovary

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Other Word Forms

• multiseptate adjective
• nonseptate adjective
• pseudomultiseptate adjective
• subseptate adjective

Etymology

Origin of septate

First recorded in 1840–50; sept(um) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Sometimes the spores are simple, in other cases septate, and in Sporochisma are at first produced in an investing cell.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Protobasidiomycetes.—This, by far the smaller division of Basidiomycetes, includes those forms which have a septate basidium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

The sarcocyte alone constitutes the septum, traversing the endoplasm, in septate Gregarines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Again, Stenophora is a septate form which has become, secondarily, completely intracellular during the young stages, and, doubtless correlated with this, shows no sign of an epimerite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

The spores are chiefly compound, at first resembling septate threads, and at length breaking up into joints, each joint of which possesses the function of a spore.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)