Synonyms

sutural

[soo-cher]

su·ture

[soo-cher] noun, verb, su·tured, su·tur·ing.
noun
1.
Surgery.
a.
a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.
b.
a particular method of doing this.
c.
one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
2.
Anatomy.
a.
the line of junction of two bones, especially of the skull, in an immovable articulation.
b.
the articulation itself.
3.
Zoology, Botany. the junction or line of junction of contiguous parts, as the line of closure between the valves of a bivalve shell, a seam where carpels of a pericarp join, etc.
4.
a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts.
5.
a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.
verb (used with object)
6.
to unite by or as by a suture.

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Sutural is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1535–45; < Latin sūtūra seam, suture, equivalent to sūt(us) (past participle of suere to sew1) + -ūra -ure

su·tur·al, adjective
su·tur·al·ly, adverb
pre·su·tur·al, adjective
un·su·tured, adjective
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suture (ˈsuːtʃə)
 
n
1.  surgery
 a.  catgut, silk thread, or wire used to stitch together two bodily surfaces
 b.  Also called: seam the surgical seam formed after joining two surfaces
2.  anatomy a type of immovable joint, esp between the bones of the skull (cranial suture)
3.  a seam or joining, as in sewing
4.  zoology a line of junction in a mollusc shell, esp the line between adjacent chambers of a nautiloid shell
5.  botany a line marking the point of dehiscence in a seed pod or capsule
 
vb
6.  (tr) surgery to join (the edges of a wound, etc) by means of sutures
 
[C16: from Latin sūtūra, from suere to sew]
 
'sutural
 
adj
 
'suturally
 
adv

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