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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Increasing in size after flowering, as the calyx of the ground cherry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Increasing; growing. Specifically, in botany, applied to parts connected with the flower which increase in size after flowering, as frequently occurs with the calyx, involucre, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Growing; increasing.
  2. adj. botany Growing larger after flowering.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Growing; increasing.
  2. adj. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere ("to grow") (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin accrēscēns, accrēscent-, present participle of accrēscere, to grow; see accrue. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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