equitant

[ ek-wi-tuhnt ]

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adjective

, Botany.

straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.

equitant

/ ˈɛkwɪtənt /

adjective

(of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite

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Word History and Origins

Origin of equitant¹

1820–30; < Latin equitant- (stem of equitāns ) (present participle of equitāre to ride), equivalent to equit- (stem of eques; equites ) + -ant- -ant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of equitant¹

C19: from Latin equitāns riding, from equitāre to ride, from equus horse

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Example Sentences

Involucral leaves numerous, equitant; perianth ovate-subulate or narrowly fusiform, 3-angled, deeply 6–8-lobed.

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These are tufted perennial grasses with rigid equitant leaves at the base.

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The nodes are glabrous mostly bearing tufts of leaves with compressed equitant sheaths.

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Nodes are glabrous and dark-ringed, and with fan-like spreading equitant leaf-sheaths and leaves more especially when rooting.

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The leaf-sheaths are smooth, equitant with thinly membranous margins.

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