These beautful "segmented" saguaros are unusual and don't reside on top of a saguaro main trunk, but more like an arm that starts and stops and then restarts multiple times. Kind of like what some of us call a "tinker toy" saguaro.
Source: Webster's New World Dictionary - College Edition
Segment (seg'ment), n, [L. segmenium < secare, to cut],
1.) any of the parts into which a body is separated or separable: division: section.
2.) in geometry,
_a) a part of a figure, especially of a circle or sphere, marked off or made separate by a line or plane, as a part of a circular area bounded by an arc and its chord.
_b) any of the finite sections of a line.
3.) in zoology,
_a) any of the sections that form a body of an arthropod,
_b) the part of a limb between joints.syn. see part.
v.t. & v.i. to divide into segments. --SYN
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
Mutate v
1: cause to undergo mutation; of cells
2: undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
Last updated April, 2012
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