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They also increase in width through appositional growth.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

A colon is used to introduce a series of particulars, either appositional or explanatory, which the reader has been led to expect by the first clause of the sentence.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

The genitive of possession is the appositional genitive. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

In compound expressions, containing words in apposition, a word with a phrase, etc., the possessive sign is usually last, though instances are found with both appositional words marked.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

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 Jenner, Henry