excurrent

[ ik-skur-uhnt, -skuhr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

running out or forth.
Zoology. giving passage outward; affording exit:
the excurrent canal of certain sponges.
Botany.
1. having the axis prolonged so as to form an undivided main stem or trunk, as the stem of the spruce.
2. projecting beyond the apex, as the midrib in certain leaves.

excurrent

/ ɛkˈskʌrənt /

zoology having an outward flow, as certain pores in sponges, ducts, etc
botany
1. (of veins) extending beyond the margin of the leaf
2. having an undivided main stem or trunk, as the spruce and other conifers
flowing or running in an outward direction

1595–1605; < Latin excurrent- (stem of excurrēns ) present participle of excurrere to run forth. See ex- ¹, current

C19: from Latin excurrere to run forth; see excursion

Its excurrent branches are very different from those of other elms.

When the main trunk of a tree extends upward through the head to the tip, as in Fig. 3, it is said to be excurrent.

Medium-sized tree with mainly an excurrent trunk and horizontal branches.

Achenes top-shaped, 5-costate, villous; pappus of 5–10 long thin scales, awn-tipped by the excurrent nerve.

But this tree of evolution is an excurrent stem, continuous through the clustering branches to the terminal shoot—man.

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