obcompressed

American  

[ob-kuhm-prest] / ˌɒb kəmˈprɛst /

noun

Botany.

1. compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.

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Example Sentences

Achenes only in the ray, obcompressed, surrounded by a slender callous margin, crowned with the persistent ray-corolla and a pappus of 2 small chaffy scales.—Leaves alternate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa