appressed
Use Appressed in a sentence
adjective
pressed closely against or fitting closely to something.
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| —adj | |
| pressed closely against, but not joined to, a surface: leaves appressed to a stem | |
| [C18: from Latin appressus, from apprimere, from premere to press] | |
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Appressed
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
Stems are sparsely covered with straight hairs appressed to the surface, while the leaves have some spreading hairs.
The nutlets are densely covered with stiff, appressed to silky, hairs.
They are aromatic and densely covered with appressed, gray hair.
Stem leaves are only about a half-inch long and appressed along the stem.
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