apophyses
Meaning of apophyses
- a natural protuberance from a bone, or inside the shell or exoskeleton of a sea urchin or insect, for the attachment of muscles.
- a swelling at the base of the sporangium in some mosses.
- a small offshoot extending from an igneous intrusion into the surrounding rock.
late 16th century: modern Latin, from Greek apophusis ‘offshoot’, from apo- ‘from, away’ + phusis ‘growth’.
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Hyphenation of apophyses
apophy-ses
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- apophyses is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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