noun the stitch by which the parts are united.
2. suture ·noun the uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
3. suture ·noun the line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
4. suture ·noun a line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
5. suture ·noun a seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
6. suture ·noun the line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
7. suture ·noun the act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
8. suture ·noun the line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. ·see harmonic suture, under harmonic.