appressed

American  

[uh-prest] / əˈprɛst /

adjective

1. pressed closely against or fitting closely to something.

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appressed British  

/ əˈprɛst /

adjective

1. pressed closely against, but not joined to, a surface

   leaves appressed to a stem

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• subappressed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of appressed

1785–95; < Latin appress ( us ) pressed to (past participle of apprimere ), equivalent to ap- ap- ¹ + pressus ( see press ¹) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Gland.—A deep pit, conspicuously prominent on the outside of the petals, covered within by appressed hairs.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Pappus simple; scales imbricated, appressed, without herbaceous tips, often scarious-edged or dry.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Corymbosely much branched; heads small, sessile, in little clusters crowded in flat-topped corymbs; the closely appressed involucral scales somewhat glutinous; receptacle fimbrillate; rays 6–20, short, more numerous than the disk-flowers; leaves narrow, entire, sessile.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Involucre club-shaped, yellowish; the rigid somewhat glutinous scales linear, closely imbricated and appressed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Perianth.—Of six sepals; the outer minute; the inner about five lines long, appressed to the ovary.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Related Words

• solid
• tight