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Definition of Reptant
1. a. Same as Repent.
Definition of Reptant
1. Adjective. (chiefly botany) Creeping along the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reptant
1. creeping or crawling [adj]
Medical Definition of Reptant
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reptant
Literary usage of Reptant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"... may from time to time, in the pendent living animal, which through repeated
fissions gives origin to an infinite number of ordinary reptant Amoebae; ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1865)
"... reptant masses of vegetable protoplasm cannot, any more than the isolated
motile ciliated zoospores or spermatozoids, be of animal nature; for—although, ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"1, b, c), and its sometimes plastic, reptant state, in which it was once observed
to put forth one or two short processes (fig. 6, aa). ..."
4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1865)
"... more or less dissolved, and from its trammels the now reptant amoeboid primordial
cells, by means of what were decidedly their own automatic movements, ..."
5. Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science by Samuel Haughton (1865)
"I conceive that we must, in our present state of knowledge, continue to believe
that these free amoeba-like reptant masses of vegetable protoplasm cannot, ..."
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