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accrescent

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ac⋅cres⋅cent

  [uh-kres-uhnt]
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–adjective
1. increasing; enlarging, expanding, or enriching.
2. growing, as floral parts that increase in size after flowering has occurred.
Origin:
1745–55; < L accrēscent- (s. of accrēscēns, prp. of accrēscere to grow). See ac-, crescent
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ac·cres·cent   (ə-krěs'ənt)   
adj.  Increasing in size after flowering, as the calyx of the ground cherry.

[Latin accrēscēns, accrēscent-, present participle of accrēscere, to grow; see accrue.]
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