repand

American  

[ri-pand] / rɪˈpænd /

adjective

1. Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.

2. slightly wavy.

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repand British  

/ rɪˈpænd /

adjective

1. botany having a wavy margin

   a repand leaf

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Other Word Forms

• repandly adverb
• subrepand adjective

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

Perennial, diffusely much branched and widely spreading, or at first erect; leaves sometimes oblong, repand or obtusely toothed, rarely entire; corolla 9–12´´ broad, 5-angled or 5–10-toothed; anthers yellow.

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The pileus is convex, then expanded, plane, depressed, wavy, wrinkled, without zones, often repand, smooth, white.

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The pileus is convex, the disk expanded, and the margin incurved and more or less wavy or repand on the extreme edge.

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Creeping; leaves somewhat rigid, repand, deeply lobed; lobes rounded, submucronate, the lower appressed, the upper convex with incurved apex; perianth ovate, denticulate.

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Small, at first entirely resupinate, gradually reflexed, and somewhat repand, at first sparingly clothed with dirty-white down, at length rugose; one to three inches broad.

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