appositional
Americanadjective
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(especially of contrasting things) being or placed next to each other; juxtaposed.
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Grammar. being or having the nature of apposition.
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relating to or having a rhetorical style characterized by numerous grammatical appositions.
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Biology. relating to growth by the deposition of new particles in layers on a cell wall.
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They also increase in width through appositional growth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Possessive, appositional, of nouns, 49. as antecedent of relative, 285. double, of nouns, 54. double, of pronouns.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
Sometimes, however, the initial of an appositional genitive, and sometimes that of an epithet of a masculine noun is irregularly changed in composition.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
The same rule applies to a similar appositional genitive in Hebrew—a curious coincidence between two quite unconnected languages.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
But this is not the Cornish form, which uses the simple appositional genitive in such cases.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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