imperforate

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The acetabulum for the head of the femur is imperforate, being a simple oval basin, as in Chelonian reptiles and the higher Mammals.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Yet the catalog value of the latter is $2.50 against 36 cents for the wove paper imperforate alone.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong

The stamp is nearly square, and the specimens possessed by our correspondent are imperforate.

From Gambia by Melville, Frederick John

Rhabdamminina, rab-da-mi-nī′na, n. a group of marine imperforate foraminiferous protozoans.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

It would probably be impossible to remove the perforation so as to make this stamp pass for an imperforate specimen and then it would lack the projection of the original.

From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by Tiffany, John Kerr