These are the meanings of the letters STUURE when you unscramble them.
- Suture (n.)
A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
- Suture (n.)
A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
- Suture (n.)
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
- Suture (n.)
The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
- Suture (n.)
The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
- Suture (n.)
The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
- Suture (n.)
The stitch by which the parts are united.
- Suture (n.)
The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
- Uterus (n.)
A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
- Uterus (n.)
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.