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Definition of Incubous
1. a. Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.
Definition of Incubous
1. Adjective. (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that anterior parts of older leaves overlap the posterior parts of younger ones ¹
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Definition of Incubous
1. having overlapping leaves [adj]
Medical Definition of Incubous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incubous
Literary usage of Incubous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"Capsule pedicellate from the bottom of the tube. — Antheridia on the upper side
of the stem in the axils of leaves. Leaves incubous, palmately divided, ..."
2. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"... but a careful search will usually discover some plants in which this character
can be seen- In plants with incubous leaves the bud is turned downward; ..."
3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"... incubous (ie the apex of each leaf lying on the base of the next above) ...
i- «- Leaves incubous, mostly plane or depressed. 0. ..."
4. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"incuboUs*(bot.) (not ital.). incub/us *, an oppression ; pl.-i*. incumber,
etc., use en-*. incunabula*,sing. -um *, the earliest examples of any art; ..."
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