Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Increasing; growing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing; increasing.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering.
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- adjective Growing;
increasing . - adjective botany Growing larger after flowering.
Etymologies
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From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere ("to grow")
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