accrescent
English
Etymology
From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkɹɛsənt/
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Adjective
accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)
- Growing; increasing.
- 1728, Samuel Shuckford , The Sacred and Profane History of the World
- whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration
- 1728, Samuel Shuckford , The Sacred and Profane History of the World
- (botany) Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
- 2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
- The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.
- 2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
Related terms
- accrescence
- accretional
- accretive
Translations
growing
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kʁɛ.sɑ̃/, /a.kʁe.sɑ̃/
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Adjective
accrescent (feminine accrescente, masculine plural accrescents, feminine plural accrescentes)
- (botany) accrescent
Further reading
- “accrescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
accrēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of accrēscō