succubous
English
Adjective
succubous (not comparable)
- (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) 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 896653355, page 482:
- If the apical cell is slightly antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results […]
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Antonyms
- (of leaves): incubous
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Translations
describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal parts of older leaves overlap the distal parts of younger ones
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