Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Compounded or consisting of things or parts that are already compound.
- adj. Botany Having or consisting of divisions that are themselves once or several times compound; bipinnate: a decompound leaf.
- v. To decompose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To decompose.
- To compound a second time; compound or form out of that which is already compound; form by a second composition.
- Composed of things which are themselves compound; compounded a second time.
- In botany, divided into a number of compound divisions, as a leaf or panicle; repeatedly cleft or cut into an indefinite number of unequal segments. A decompound leaf is one in which the primary petiole gives off subsidiary petioles, each supporting a compound leaf. Also
decomposite . - n. A decomposite (which see).
Wiktionary
- n. A decomposite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
- v. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
- adj. Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
- adj. (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
- n. A decomposite.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound
Examples
“_Caryota_ or wine-palm, whose immense decompound leaves are twelve feet long.”
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“The different kinds of the decompound leaf are — Bigeminatc t Bitemate and Bipinnate; which fee in their proper places. —”
“Sea fait is compofed of the marine acid, and a foflil alkali, to which latter the vitriolic acid found in Gypfiim has a greater affinity than the marine acid; it will therefore decompound the fait and unite with the foflil alkali perhaps, (I fpeak with deference, not knowing the fa6l) perhaps, I fay, the foflil alkali may be unfriendly to vegetation, or not of a nature to be ab - forbed by the plant.”
““compound” to “decompound,” he wrote of ideas and actions being either “complex” or”
“Readers of the Observations would have been familiar with the words “decompound” and “decomposite” ” both from the late Latin decompositus, a rendering of the Greek parasynthetos ” in which the “de -” prefix signifies “repeatedly” or “further.””
“sending flowers to switzerland ~ climbing corydalis corydalis claviculata fumaria claviculata annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers.”
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Leaves
phyllodial, phyllodium, phyllodineous, leaf, lamina, petiole, stoma, cuticle, stomata, apex, vein, craspedodromous and 122 more...
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Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
untie, divorce, unscramble, disunite, disjoin, undo, separate, disassemble, uncouple, unhitch, disassociate, disaffiliate and 185 more...
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