suturaladj.
/ˈsjuːtjʊərəl/ Of, pertaining or relating to, or situated in a suture.
a. Botany esp. of dehiscence taking place at the suture of a pericarp.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [adjective] > dehiscent
ruptile1721
septicidal1812
septifragal1819
sutural1819
circumscissile1835
dehiscing1839
dehiscent1845
porous1861
circumsciss1870
1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 21 A seed attached to an axile, parietal, or sutural trophosperm.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 164 If [the dehiscence takes place] along the inner edge of a simple fruit it is called sutural.
1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 206 Placentæ sutural, with 1 or 2 seeds.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands p. x Ovules sutural or basal.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. vii. 92 The sutural placentation of apocarpous pistils.
b. Entomology, etc. Also Anatomy pertaining to the sutures of the skull.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [adjective]
ginglymoid1668
arthrodial1703
squamous1712
planiform1733
sutural1826
synarthrodial1830
enarthrodial1836
ginglyform1847
cup and ball1854
amphiarthrodial1859
synostotic1864
synchondrosial1866
trochoidal1882
amphiarthrotic1956
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 600 The sutural and anal angles exist only where the elytra are truncated at the apex.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 883/2 The common sutural connexion of some of the bones in man.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 165 They are united together at their thick margins by rough or ‘sutural’ surfaces.
1874 Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Ligament, Sutural, a term applied to a thin layer of fibrous membrane, which is interposed between the adjacent margins of bones in immovable joints.
c. Pertaining to, resulting from, a surgical suture.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [adjective] > relating to suture
sutural1897
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 595 The sutures were passed through the fibrous structures of the parietes... A little sutural abscess formed about one parietal stitch.
Derivatives
ˈsuturally adv. by means of, or in the manner of, a suture or sutures.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [adverb]
suturally1854
synchondrosially1902
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 178 The hæmapophysis is subdivided into two, three, or more pieces,..suturally interlocked together.
1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 754/2 The short premaxillæ..are united suturally in the middle line.
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