exsert

[ek-surt]

verb (used with object)

1. to thrust out.

adjective

1. thrust out; exserted.

exsert

/ ɛkˈsɜːtaɪl, ɛkˈsɜːt /

verb

1. (tr) to thrust out; protrude

adjective

1. protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting beyond the corolla of a flower

Other Word Forms

• exsertion noun
• exsertile adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exsert¹

1655–65; < Latin exsertus stretched out, put forth, variant of exertus; exert

Word History and Origins

Origin of exsert¹

C19: from Latin exserere to thrust out; see _exert

Example Sentences

We identified three major loci and two minor loci responsible for exserted stigma, and found that all the five QTLs were located within domestication sweeps.

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Palpi exserted, approximating, covered with scales, but without hairs, the last joint naked, slender, acute.

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Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one.

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Included, inclosed by the surrounding organs; not exserted.

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They are hypogynous, and have long and very delicate filaments, and large, linear or oblong two-celled anthers, dorsifixed and ultimately very versatile, deeply indented at each end, and commonly exserted and pendulous.

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