dissects
Meaning of dissects
verb, 3rd person present
- methodically cut up (a body or plant) in order to study its internal parts.
an animal's eye can be easily dissected
late 16th century: from Latin dissect- ‘cut up’, from the verb dissecare, from dis- ‘apart’ + secare ‘to cut’.
Information about dissects
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of dissects is: dissect.
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Hyphenation of dissects
dis-sects
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dissects is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dissects synonyms
Meaning dissect (a body):
Meaning cut off the limbs of (a person or animal):
Meaning (used only by opponents of the practice) perform vivisection on (an animal):
Words that rhyme with dissects
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