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Definition of Appressed
1. Adjective. Pressed close to or lying flat against something. "Igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"
Definition of Appressed
1. a. Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem.
Definition of Appressed
1. Verb. (past of appress) ¹
2. Adjective. (biology mycology) Closely flattened down. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appressed
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Appressed
1. Pressed closely against but not united with. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appressed
Literary usage of Appressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Mass, to NC *» *» Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong •• Calyx and bracts densely invested
with close minute appressed pubescence. 10. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Sepals 6, the outer spreading, the inner enlarging and appressed to the triangular
... Sepals 4 to ti, equal, appressed to the triangular or lenticular ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"... vertex and occiput with brownish, more or less erect pubescence, cheeks with
inconspicuous appressed •^whitish and brownish pubescence. ..."
4. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Sepáis obovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, pilose with appressed hairs on the back ; f> -a
minute, linear. Pétale oblong, membranaceous, brawn, cohering at apex, ..."
5. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Pods appressed to the stem ; leaves run- cinate. Sp. pi. 3. p. 509- Mich. ...
Pod 6—8 lines long, tapering to an acute pomt, closely appressed to the stem. ..."
6. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... r 10 inches long, a line or less broad; cauline gradually reduced to subulate
appressed bracts: heads few or numerous iu a small compact terminal ..."
7. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... and its upper is continued into a membranous crest about one- eighth of an
inch in height, and clothed with the same short, stiff, appressed hairs " as ..."
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