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Definition of Porrect
1. a. Extended horizontally; stretched out.
Definition of Porrect
1. Adjective. stretched (out or forward) ¹
2. Verb. To stretch out or forward ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Porrect
1. extended forward [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porrect
Literary usage of Porrect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Flower-stalk up to one span high, erect or porrect, strong, greenish white, with
three to four generally blunt distant ..."
2. 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)
"... its centre prominent, «ides at first folded in, afterwards porrect or slightly
patent; lower lip of 3 roundish obtuse rather unequal lobes, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... much stouter and longer, the three upper ones erect or divergent, the
lowest (usually the longest and somewhat flattened), porrect or deflexed, ..."
4. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Fl. and Stam. porrect. R. creeping. p., 7. Moût meadows and banks. ß. nigricans,
... Stam. porrect. p. 7, 8. Sandy shores of the Adda. ..."
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