Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Increasing in size after flowering, as the calyx of the ground cherry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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
- adj. Growing; increasing.
- adj. botany Growing larger after flowering.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Growing; increasing.
- adj. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering.
Etymologies
- From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere ("to grow") (Wiktionary)
- Latin accrēscēns, accrēscent-, present participle of accrēscere, to grow; see accrue. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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