equitant
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of equitant
1820–30; < Latin equitant- (stem of equitāns ) (present participle of equitāre to ride), equivalent to equit- (stem of eques; see equites) + -ant- -ant
Example Sentences
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Stems are erect or ascending, slender, strongly compressed, lower parts completely covered by rigid equitant leaves, 6 to 18 inches long or more.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The nodes are glabrous mostly bearing tufts of leaves with compressed equitant sheaths.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Nodes are glabrous and dark-ringed, and with fan-like spreading equitant leaf-sheaths and leaves more especially when rooting.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-sheath is short, pale, glabrous, somewhat compressed, striate, equitant below and upper are longer, terete and green.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
These are tufted perennial grasses with rigid equitant leaves at the base.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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