Imperforate meaning

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Lacking a normal opening.

An imperforate anus.

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Having no holes or openings; unpierced.
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Having no opening; not perforated.
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Lacking the normal opening.
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Lacking a normal opening.

An imperforate anus.

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(philately) A postage stamp that has not been perforated.
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Not separated by rows of perforations.

Imperforate sheets of stamps.

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An imperforate stamp.
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Having a straight edge without perforations.
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An imperforate stamp.
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Having no opening; not perforated.
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Imperforate Sentence Examples

  • In some corals the septa are solid imperforate plates of calcite, and their peripheral ends are either firmly welded together, or are united by interstitial pieces so as to form imperforate theca.

  • a, without, and Rropos, passage), a biological term meaning imperforate, or not porous: there is a group of corals called Aporosa.

  • Occasionally the hymen is imperforate and then gives rise to trouble in menstruation.

  • In Coleochaete the oogonial wall is drawn out into a considerable tube, which is provided with an apical pore, and this tube has a somewhat similar appearance to the imperforate trichogyne of Florideae to be hereafter described.

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