septicidal
English
Etymology
From septum + Latin caedere (“to cut”). Compare French septicide.
Adjective
septicidal (not comparable)
- (botany) Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “septicidal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)