Meanings
comparative more accrescent · superlative most accrescent
- Growing; increasing.
whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration
1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World - biologyWhich keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.
2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
Origin
- Latinaccrescens
- Englishaccrescent
From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
More words from Latin
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Catalan acrescent
- acrescentbotany
Latin accrescens
- accrescensgrowing
Portuguese acrescente
- acrescentebotany
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with accrescent
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