Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the leaf base extending down the stem below the insertion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, extending downward beyond the place of insertion: as, a decurrent leaf (that is, a sessile leaf having its base extending downward along the stem). Also
decurring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Pertaining to plant parts that extend
downward , most often applied to leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along thestem . - adjective mycology Pertaining to
lamellae (the gills of amushroom ) that are broadly attached and extend down thestipe of themushroom . - adjective obsolete
running orextending downwards .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gills are adnato-decurrent, that is, partly attached and prolonged down the stem.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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+Tubes+ greenish-yellow, turning dark green, adnato-decurrent, that is, broadly attached to the stem and running down it, ⅛ inch long.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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CLITOPILUS Fr. In the rosy-spored agarics belonging to this genus the gills are decurrent, that is, extend for some distance down on the stem.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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a considerable distance, as in the so-called decurrent leaves, at other times the leaves are prolonged at their base into lobes, which are directed along the stem, and are united with it.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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They are "decurrent," or running along the stalk; a broad strip at the base of each leaf is attached to the stalk.
Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke
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The lower pinnæ pinnately parted into three to five divisions, those of the fertile fronds oblong or linear-oblong; those of the sterile, obovate or ovate, crenulate, decurrent at the base.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnules lanceolate, strongly decurrent so that the pinnæ are merely pinnatifid.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Basal segments decurrent and forming a many-angled wing along the main rachis.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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The toadstool is tawny yellow, and produces white spores; the gills are decurrent, and the stem bears a ring.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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Fronds oblong-lanceolate, five to twelve inches long, twice pinnate, the pinnæ often pinnatifid or cut-toothed, ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the winged rachis.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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