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Definition of Excurrent
1. a. Running or flowing out
Definition of Excurrent
1. Adjective. (botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excurrent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Excurrent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Excurrent
Literary usage of Excurrent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... petiole excurrent between the pinna;, with a subulate slender point; ...
excurrent in the form of a small subulate point. Fio. 308. ..."
2. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... leaves excurrent. NH, Vt., NJ, Ontario. The specimens from Georgia and Florida
that have been referred to this species, are, I believe, ..."
3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Both trunks excurrent and developed in same environment. Difference of form is
due to inherent qualities. One tapers, with persistent lateral branches; ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Secondly, in other cases the excurrent system owes its origin to the further
complication of ex- current chamber ducts such as have been described above in ..."
5. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... the margins reflexed above and denticulate, the points recurved and diaphanous,
the nerve excurrent; the intermediate leaves resemble those of the ..."
6. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Such a trunk is said to be excurrent. In other cases the main stem is arrested,
sooner or later, either by flowering, by the failure of the terminal bud, ..."
7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Stem very short, simple: leaves crowded, ligulate or oblong, obtuse and tipped
by the slender excurrent costa, concave and the margin revolute, ..."
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