decurrent

American  

[dih-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-] / dɪˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr- /

adjective

Botany.

1. extending down the stem below the place of insertion, as certain leaves.

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decurrent British  

/ dɪˈkʌrənt /

adjective

1. botany extending down the stem, esp (of a leaf) having the base of the blade extending down the stem as two wings

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Other Word Forms

• decurrence noun
• decurrency noun
• decurrently adverb

Etymology

Origin of decurrent

1745–55; < Latin dēcurrent- (stem of dēcurrēns ) running down (present participle of dēcurrere, equivalent to dē- de- + currere to run); current

Example Sentences

Leaves decurrent at the folds, the lower lobe incurved and ventricose; underleaves usually present, entire or bifid.

From Project Gutenberg

Stems brownish-green, rigid, tenacious; leaves remote, scarcely decurrent, obliquely elliptic-ovate, opaque, the cells round and strongly chlorophyllose; diœcious; the antheridial spike lateral below the keel of a leaf, long, linear, somewhat obtuse.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaves large, incubous, complicate-bilobed; lower lobe ligulate, suberect; underleaves similar, decurrent at base, the apex entire.

From Project Gutenberg

P. pinnàta, L. Stems irregularly pinnate, fastigiate at the ends; leaves scarcely incubous, ovate-oblong, the rounded apex sometimes slightly decurved; lower lobe minute, flat, oblong, obtuse, as long but not half as wide as the flat, entire, ovate-rectangular, scarcely decurrent underleaves.

From Project Gutenberg

Mostly fuscous-green, irregularly pinnate or subdichotomous; leaves more remote on the branches, obliquely round-ovate, the rounded summit slightly decurved, more or less denticulate; lower lobe decurrent, twisted, obliquely ovate, acute, with recurved undulate denticulate margin and a large acute tooth at base; underleaves twice as wide as the lower lobes, quadrate-oval, the undulate reflexed margin dentate, especially near the base.

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