percurrent

American  

[per-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-] / pərˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr- /

adjective

Botany.

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

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Etymology

Origin of percurrent

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

Example Sentences

Key to the Genera of the Lamprodermace� A. Columella percurrent; capillitium from a disk at the apex 1.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Spikelets flat, ovate-elliptic or oblong, lateral nerves of flowering glumes very prominent and straight, almost percurrent; palea deciduous with their glumes 2.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.