incubous
English
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The leaves of Calypogeia are incubous.
Adjective
incubous (not comparable)
- (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.
- 1966, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 482:
- If the apical cell is slightly postically displaced, an incubous orientation of the leaf rudiments ensues […]
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “of leaves”): succubous
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Translations
describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal parts of older leaves overlap the proximal parts of younger ones
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