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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Receding from the base: in botany, said of the growth of leaves which are developed from the base upward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Tending or proceeding away from the base.

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  • adjective botany Tending or proceeding away from the base.

Etymologies

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base + Latin fugere to flee.

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