succubously
English
Adverb
succubously (not comparable)
- (botany) In an orientation 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 481:
- […] and the Trichocoleaceae (with predominantly succubously inserted leaves but Eotrichocolea with the leaves incubous; […]
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Antonyms
- (of leaves): incubously
Translations
in an orientation such that proximal parts of older leaves overlap the distal parts of younger ones
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