Definitions for excurrent

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excurrent ex·cur·rent

Spelling: [ik-skur-uh nt, -skuhr-]

IPA: /ɪkˈskɜr ənt, -ˈskʌr-/

Excurrent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in excurrent (ceenrrtux).

Definitions for excurrent

adjective

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

Origin of excurrent

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

Examples for excurrent

An excurrent and returning current were also traced to each of the legs.

This is called an excurrent trunk (Lat., excurrere, to run out).

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

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.

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

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

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