Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Overlapping at the base to form a flat, fanlike arrangement in two ranks, as the leaves of some irises.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Riding on horseback; mounted upon a horse.
- Straddling.
- In entomology, applied to the antennæ or other jointed organs when they are compressed, and each joint appears to be longitudinally folded, inclosing the base of the succeeding one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
- adjective (Bot.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Mounted on, or sitting upon, a
horse ; riding onhorseback . - adjective botany
Overlapping at the base.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Before they became authors, Proctor was a partner in an international business consulting firm and Harris is a human resources manager for an industrial equitant manufacturer.
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Et durat ista terra in longitudine à Danubio vsque Tanaim; qui est terminus Asiæ; et Europæ, itinere duorum mensium velociter equitando prout equitant Tartari: [Sidenote: Comania longitudo.]
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Tartari verò quos equitant die vna, non ascendunt tribus diebus, vel quatuor postea.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Vnde quum equitant plures dominæ simul et videntur à longe, apparent milites, habentes galeas in capitibus cum lanceis eleuatis.
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Virgines et mulieres equitant, et agiliter in equis currunt vt viri.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et durat ista terra in longitudine � Danubio vsque Tanaim; qui est terminus Asi� et Europ�, itinere duorum mensium velociter equitando prout equitant Tartari: [Sidenote: Comania longitudo.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tartari illum quem equitant vna die, illum non ascendunt in tribus vel in quatuor diebus post hoc.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vnde quum equitant plures domin� simul et videntur � longe, apparent milites, habentes galeas in capitibus cum lanceis eleuatis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tartari ver� quos equitant die vna, non ascendunt tribus diebus, vel quatuor postea.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The _leaf-sheath_ is short, pale, glabrous, somewhat compressed, striate, equitant below and upper are longer, terete and green.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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