accrescent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)
- 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
- (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.
- 2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
Related terms
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[edit]growing
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botany
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accrescent (feminine accrescente, masculine plural accrescents, feminine plural accrescentes)
Further reading
[edit]- “accrescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]accrēscent
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