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percurrent

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per⋅cur⋅rent

  [per-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-]
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–adjective Botany.
extending through the entire length, as a midrib through a leaf.
Origin:
1570–80; < L percurrent- (s. of percurrēns), prp. of percurrere to run through. See per-, current
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per·cur·rent   (pər-kûr'ənt)   
adj.  Of or relating to a midrib that extends through the entire length of a leaf.

[Latin percurrēns, percurrent-, present participle of percurrere, to run through : per-, per- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
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