Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun A decomposite (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
- transitive verb To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
- adjective Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
- adjective (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
- noun A decomposite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
decomposite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound
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_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. —
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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.
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“compound” to “decompound,” he wrote of ideas and actions being either “complex” or
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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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.”
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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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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