Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Overlapping at the base to form a flat, fanlike arrangement in two ranks, as the leaves of some irises.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Riding on horseback; mounted upon a horse.
- Straddling. Hence—In botany, conduplicate and overlapping: applied to distichous leaves whose crowded, conduplicate bases successively overlap from below upward, the upper part of the leaf being a flat, vertical blade; also to a form of vernation in which two-ranked (distichous) or three-ranked leaves similarly overlap.
- In entomology, applied to the antennæ or other jointed organs when they are compressed, and each joint appears to be longitudinally folded, inclosing the base of the succeeding one.
Wiktionary
- adj. Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
- adj. botany Overlapping at the base.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
- adj. (Bot.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.
Etymologies
- Latin equitans, equitantis, present participle of equitō ("I ride on horseback"), from eques ("horseman"), from equus ("horse"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin equitāns, equitant-, present participle of equitāre, to ride horseback, from eques, equit-, horseman, from equus, horse; see ekwo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Before they became authors, Proctor was a partner in an international business consulting firm and Harris is a human resources manager for an industrial equitant manufacturer.”
“Tartari verò quos equitant die vna, non ascendunt tribus diebus, vel quatuor postea.”
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
“Vnde quum equitant plures dominæ simul et videntur à longe, apparent milites, habentes galeas in capitibus cum lanceis eleuatis.”
“Et durat ista terra in longitudine à Danubio vsque Tanaim; qui est terminus Asiæ; et Europæ, itinere duorum mensium velociter equitando prout equitant Tartari: [Sidenote: Comania longitudo.]”
“Tartari illum quem equitant vna die, illum non ascendunt in tribus vel in quatuor diebus post hoc.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Vnde quum equitant plures domin� simul et videntur � longe, apparent milites, habentes galeas in capitibus cum lanceis eleuatis.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Tartari ver� quos equitant die vna, non ascendunt tribus diebus, vel quatuor postea.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Virgines et mulieres equitant, et agiliter in equis currunt vt viri.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Et durat ista terra in longitudine � Danubio vsque Tanaim; qui est terminus Asi� et Europ�, itinere duorum mensium velociter equitando prout equitant Tartari: [Sidenote: Comania longitudo.]”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“The _leaf-sheath_ is short, pale, glabrous, somewhat compressed, striate, equitant below and upper are longer, terete and green.”
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