dissected

[ dih-sek-tid, dahy- ]

adjective

1. Botany. deeply divided into numerous segments, as a leaf.
2. Physical Geography. separated, by erosion, into many closely spaced crevices or gorges, as the surface of a plateau.

dissected

/ daɪ-; dɪˈsɛktɪd /

adjective

1. botany in the form of narrow lobes or segments

   dissected leaves

2. geology (of plains) cut by erosion into hills and valleys, esp following tectonic movements

Other Words From

• undis·sected adjective
• well-dis·sected adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dissected¹

First recorded in 1625–35; dissect + -ed ²

Example Sentences

He states them with a musical cadence and then brings them out one by one to be examined, dissected and reveled in.

From The Daily Beast

Otherwise they have to go elsewhere for tissue flaps and movement of large chunks of dissected flesh from here to there.

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In short, The Art of Eating takes food seriously, as something to be dissected, learned, and discussed.

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Her court testimony and declarations were carefully transcribed and dissected.

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In Newsweek this week, David Stockman dissected the performance of Bain Capital during the Mitt Romney years.

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(I mean the widow lady's whiskered companion)—I saw him eat pease with the very knife with which he had dissected the duck!

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The body of the unfortunate girl was duly dissected, and no one remarked or appeared to recognise her.

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Over his head was a roofing not unlike the inside of a vast skull, which might have been imagined to have been recently dissected.

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The mucous membrane, that naturally covers all parts within the vocal mechanism, has been dissected away to show the muscles.

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He gloated over Paris as a scientist gloats over an interesting organism that he has first observed and then skilfully dissected.

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