excurrent
running out or forth.
Zoology. giving passage outward; affording exit: the excurrent canal of certain sponges.
Botany.
having the axis prolonged so as to form an undivided main stem or trunk, as the stem of the spruce.
projecting beyond the apex, as the midrib in certain leaves.
Origin of excurrent
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How to use excurrent in a sentence
Its excurrent branches are very different from those of other elms.
Forest Trees of Illinois | Fuller George D.When the main trunk of a tree extends upward through the head to the tip, as in Fig. 3, it is said to be excurrent.
Trees of the Northern United States | Austin C. ApgarMedium-sized tree with mainly an excurrent trunk and horizontal branches.
Trees of the Northern United States | Austin C. ApgarAchenes top-shaped, 5-costate, villous; pappus of 5–10 long thin scales, awn-tipped by the excurrent nerve.
But this tree of evolution is an excurrent stem, continuous through the clustering branches to the terminal shoot—man.
Evolution | Joseph Le Conte
British Dictionary definitions for excurrent
/ (ɛkˈskʌrənt) /
zoology having an outward flow, as certain pores in sponges, ducts, etc
botany
(of veins) extending beyond the margin of the leaf
having an undivided main stem or trunk, as the spruce and other conifers
flowing or running in an outward direction
Origin of excurrent
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