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Definition of Exsert
1. Verb. Thrust or extend out. "The bee exserted its sting"
Specialized synonyms: Hyperextend
Generic synonyms: Gesticulate, Gesture, Motion
Derivative terms: Extendible, Extensible, Extensor
Definition of Exsert
1. a. Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.
2. v. t. To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.
Definition of Exsert
1. Verb. To thrust out ¹
2. Verb. To protrude ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exsert
1. to thrust out [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsert
Literary usage of Exsert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... scarcely as long as the calyx: stamens not exsert II. ... fascicles of the
panicle, capillary, lax-flowered: calyx short: stamens exsert. IG—13. ..."
2. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"Mandibles little exsert. Internal lacinia of maxillae armed with a horny tooth.
... Labrum exsert, free. Mandibles scarcely produced beyond clypeus. ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1871)
"third, but a little narrower and less exsert, with the edges still more rough
and lacerated. The wall is thin, usually covered nearly and sometimes quite to ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Forms, however, are said to occur (Mount Silliman, Brewer) with exsert ...
Cones maturing in the first year, with persistent scales and exsert bracts. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"The septa are unequal, hardly exsert, and broad at the margin of the calice.
There are four cycles of septa, and six systems. The pali are large, ..."
6. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... flowers not viscous; tube of the corolla scarcely shorter than its divisions;
teeth of the calyx very short, round obtuse; stamens scarcely exsert. ..."
7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1870)
"One of the masses now before me exhibits at its base the short wide-mouthed
calices with the characteristic exsert primary septa ..."
8. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1903)
"The septa are exsert and in six systems with three cycles. They are spined on
the lateral edges, while lower down there are ..."
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