Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Bent or turned downward toward the base.
- adjective Zoology Directed backward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bending downward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin reclīnātus, past participle of reclīnāre, to recline; see recline.]
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Latin reclinatus, past participle.
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Examples
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In the second section, the ascidia are ventricose and reclinate, with the operculum free, and arched over the aperture of the tube.
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