percurrent

[ per-kur-uhnt, -kuhr- ]

adjectiveBotany.
  1. extending through the entire length, as a midrib through a leaf.

Origin of percurrent

1
1570–80; <Latin percurrent- (stem of percurrēns), present participle of percurrere to run through. See per-, current

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