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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The stems are leafy, with equitant, hard, leaf-sheaths at the base, smooth and polished, solid, 2 to 3-1/2 feet high.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Among these are the equitant leaves of the Iris or Flower-de-Luce.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Seeds ascending, appendaged at each end with a long bristle-form tail.—Rootstock creeping, bearing linear equitant leaves, and a simple stem or scape, terminated by a simple dense bracteate raceme; pedicels bearing a linear bractlet.
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 Asa Gray
Fibrous-rooted, with equitant leaves and perfect 3- or 6-androus flowers.
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 Asa Gray
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 K. Rangachari
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