adpress

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A form of appress — To press close to.

OriginLatin adprimō →
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Meanings

verbadpress (third-person singular simple present adpresses, present participle adpressing, simple past and past participle adpressed)

present singular third person adpresses · participle present adpressing · participle past adpressed · past adpressed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of appress.

    Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.

    1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

Origin

  1. Latinadprimō
  2. Englishadpress

An adaptation of adpress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adprimō, variant spelling of apprimō.

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APA

adpress. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adpress

MLA

“adpress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adpress. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adpress,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adpress.

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