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▪ I. septal, a.1|ˈsɛptəl|
[f. sept-um + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or forming a septum or septa.
1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 732/2 The internal or septual [sic] branches [of the nose] are about twelve in number. 1851Richardson Geol. viii. 217 The body has no septal divisions. 1859J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Protozoa 22 Septa, each of which is perforated by one or more septal apertures, and in most cases indicated externally by a ridge or depression, called the septal line. 1881Mivart Cat 76 The septal cartilage of the nose.
2. Bot. Growing in hedges.
1847H. C. Watson Cybele Brit. I. 66 The proposed series of terms run thus:—..Septal.—Plants of hedge⁓banks and hedge-rows. 1926J. J. Walker Nat. Hist. Oxford Distr. 114 Cuscuta europæa L. is very rare..; in Oxford it was associated with another septal species, Humulus Lupulus L.
3. Archæol. Designating a stone or slab forming a barrier between compartments in a burial chamber.
1910T. H. Bruce in J. A. Balfour Book of Arran 61 The chamber is divided by two septal slabs into three compartments. 1937Proc. Prehist. Soc. New Ser. III. 167 The segmentation of the gallery is achieved by means of septal slabs, rather lower than the side slabs, and in the Irish cairns these septal slabs are set between pairs of vertical jamb stones. 1958G. Daniel Megalith Builders Western Europe ii. 44 This segmentation or septalisation may be done by jambs projecting from each side, or by transverse stones or septal stones... Septal stones sometimes reach..half-way up the height of a chamber.
▪ II. septal, a.2|ˈsɛptəl|
[f. sept2 + -al1.]
Pertaining to a sept or clan.
1883McCarthy Outl. Irish Hist. iii. 29 He had done much to Normanize the country by making large and wholly illegal grants of Septal territory to his followers. |