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equitant
[ ek-wi-tuhnt ]
adjective
, Botany.
- straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.
equitant
/ ˈɛkwɪtənt /
adjective
- (of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of equitant1
C19: from Latin equitāns riding, from equitāre to ride, from equus horse
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Example Sentences
Involucral leaves numerous, equitant; perianth ovate-subulate or narrowly fusiform, 3-angled, deeply 6–8-lobed.
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These are tufted perennial grasses with rigid equitant leaves at the base.
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The nodes are glabrous mostly bearing tufts of leaves with compressed equitant sheaths.
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Nodes are glabrous and dark-ringed, and with fan-like spreading equitant leaf-sheaths and leaves more especially when rooting.
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The leaf-sheaths are smooth, equitant with thinly membranous margins.
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