Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Receding from the base: in botany, said of the growth of leaves which are developed from the base upward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Tending or proceeding away from the base.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Tending or proceeding away from the
base .
Etymologies
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base + Latin fugere to flee.
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