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