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decompound

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de⋅com⋅pound

  [v. dee-kuhm-pound; adj. dee-kom-pound, dee-kom-pound, -kuhm-]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to decompose.
2. Obsolete. to compound a second or further time.
–adjective
3. Botany. divided into compound divisions.
4. composed of compounds the parts of which are also compounds, as a bipinnate leaf.
Origin:
1605–15; de- + compound 1
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de·com·pound 1   (dē-kŏm'pound', dē'kəm-pound')   
adj.  

  1. Compounded or consisting of things or parts that are already compound.

  2. Botany Having or consisting of divisions that are themselves once or several times compound; bipinnate: a decompound leaf.

de·com·pound 2   (dē'kəm-pound')   
tr.v.   de·com·pound·ed, de·com·pound·ing, de·com·pounds
To decompose.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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