equitant

American  

[ek-wi-tuhnt] / ˈɛk wɪ tənt /

adjective

Botany.

1. straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.

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equitant British  

/ ˈɛkwɪtənt /

adjective

1. (of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite

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Etymology

Origin of equitant

1820–30; < Latin equitant- (stem of equitāns ) (present participle of equitāre to ride), equivalent to equit- (stem of eques; equites ) + -ant- -ant

Example Sentences

After his tenure at Avis, Mr. Rand was chief executive of Equitant, a management services company later purchased by IBM.

From Washington Post

In 2003, I joined Equitant, a provider of outsourced management services.

From New York Times

Herbs, with fibrous roots, usually equitant leaves, and perfect 3–6-androus regular flowers, which are woolly or scurfy outside; the tube of the 6-lobed perianth coherent with the whole surface, or with merely the lower part, of the 3-celled ovary.—Anthers introrse.

From Project Gutenberg

Seeds numerous, oblong, ribbed, anatropous.—A slender perennial herb, with creeping rootstocks and fibrous roots, linear and nearly smooth equitant leaves; the stem leafless and whitened with soft matted wool toward the summit, as also the crowded or panicled cyme.

From Project Gutenberg

Herbs, with equitant 2-ranked leaves, and regular or irregular perfect flowers; the divisions of the 6-cleft petal-like perianth convolute in the bud in 2 sets, the tube coherent with the 3-celled ovary, and 3 distinct or monadelphous stamens, alternate with the inner divisions of the perianth, with extrorse anthers.—Flowers from a spathe of 2 or more leaves or bracts, usually showy.

From Project Gutenberg