sutural, a.
(ˈsjuːtjʊərəl)
[a. F. sutural, or mod.L. sūtūrālis: see suture and -al1.]
Of, pertaining or relating to, or situated in a suture. a. Bot. esp. of dehiscence taking place at the suture of a pericarp.
| 1819 Lindley tr. Richard's Observ. Fruits & Seeds 21 A seed attached to an axile, parietal, or sutural trophosperm. 1832 ― Introd. Bot. 164 If [the dehiscence takes place] along the inner edge of a simple fruit it is called sutural. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. 206 Placentæ sutural, with 1 or 2 seeds. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora p. x, Ovules sutural or basal. 1872 Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 92 The sutural placentation of apocarpous pistils. |
b. Entom., etc. Also Anat. pertaining to the sutures of the skull.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxv. 600 The sutural and anal angles exist only where the elytra are truncated at the apex. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 883/2 The common sutural connexion of some of the bones in man. 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 165 They are united together at their thick margins by rough or ‘sutural’ surfaces. 1876 Dunglison Med. Lex., Sutural Ligament. |
c. Pertaining to, resulting from, a surgical suture.
| 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 595 The sutures were passed through the fibrous structures of the parietes... A little sutural abscess formed about one parietal stitch. |
Hence ˈsuturally adv., by means of, or in the manner of, a suture or sutures.
| 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci. Org. Nat. I. 178 The hæmapophysis is subdivided into two, three, or more pieces,..suturally interlocked together. 1875 Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 754/2 The short premaxillæ..are united suturally in the middle line. |