accrescent

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (to grow).

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Adjective

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accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)

  1. Growing; increasing.
    • 1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World:
      whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration
  2. (botany) Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
    • 2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
      The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.kʁɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /a.kʁe.sɑ̃/
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Adjective

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accrescent (feminine accrescente, masculine plural accrescents, feminine plural accrescentes)

  1. (botany) accrescent

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Latin

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Verb

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accrēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of accrēscō