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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Septum \Sep"tum\, n.; pl {Septa}. [L. septum, saeptum, an
inclosure, hedge, fence, fr sepire, saepire to hedge in
inclose.]
1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as the nasal
septum.
2. (Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
a One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
b One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of
a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
See Illust. under {Nautilus}.
c One of the transverse partitions dividing the body
cavity of an annelid.
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