Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-SEP'I-MENT
DIS-SEP'I-MENT, n. [L. dissepimentum; dissepio, to separate; dis and sepio, to inclose or guard.]
In botany, the partitions that are formed in ovaries, by the united sides of cohering carpels, and which separate the inside into cells. – Lindley.
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