repand
[ ri-pand ]
/ rɪˈpænd /
Save This Word!
adjective
Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.
slightly wavy.
QUIZZES
THINK YOU’VE GOT A HANDLE ON THIS US STATE NICKNAME QUIZ?
Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.
Question 1 of 8
Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?
Origin of repand
1750–60; <Latin repandus bent backwards, turned up, equivalent to re-re- + pandus bent, curved, derivative of pandere to spread out, extend
OTHER WORDS FROM repand
re·pand·ly, adverbsub·re·pand, adjectiveWords nearby repand
repair, repairer, repairman, repairperson, repairwoman, repand, reparable, reparation, reparations, reparative, reparative dentin
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
Example sentences from the Web for repand
The light, mossy-green leaves are imparipinnate, the leaflets ovate-repand, and they are rough on the under surface.
Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands|Gerrit Parmile WilderCalyx with a very short repand-truncate or minutely 5-toothed limb.
Repand: wavy; with alternate segments of circles and intervening angles.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology|John. B. SmithThe pileus is convex, the disk expanded, and the margin incurved and more or less wavy or repand on the extreme edge.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.|George Francis Atkinson
British Dictionary definitions for repand
repand
/ (rɪˈpænd) /
adjective
botany having a wavy margina repand leaf
Derived forms of repand
repandly, adverbWord Origin for repand
C18: from Latin repandus bent backwards, from re- + pandus curved
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012