Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Having a somewhat wavy margin: a repand leaf.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, wavy or wavy-margined; tending to be sinuate, but less uneven; undulate: said chiefly of leaves and leafmargins.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany, zoology Having a slightly undulating margin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot. & Zool.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a slightly undulating margin
Etymologies
- Latin repandus bent backward, turned up; prefix re- re- + pandus bent, crooked. (Wiktionary)
- Latin repandus, bent backward : re-, re- + pandus, past participle of pandere, to spread out; see petə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes.”
“The = pileus = is first umbilicate or depressed, becoming depressed or infundibuliform, irregular, eccentric, the margin repand, and sometimes lobed, and lobes appearing at times on the upper surface of the cap.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The = pileus = is convex, the disk expanded, and the margin incurved and more or less wavy or repand on the extreme edge.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The margin is often wavy or repand, and in irregular forms it is only produced at one side, or more at one side than at the other, or the cap is irregularly lobed.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
““Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes.””
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
“Cataract River which in its appearance when divested of its folage, much resembles the white ash; the appearance of the wood and bark is also that of the ash. it's Stem is Simple branching and diffuse. the lief is petiolate, plane, scattered palmate lobate, divided by four deep Sinusus; the lobes are repand or terminate in from 3 to 5 accute angular points, while their margins are indented with irregular and”
“Ou loin des doux raions que repand l'oeil du monde”
“There is a tree common to the Columbia river below the enterance of cataract River which in it's appearance when divested of it's folage, much resembles the white ash; the appearance of the wood and bark is also that of the ash. it's stem is simple. branching and diffuse. the lief is petiolate, plane, scattered palmate lobate, divided by four deep sinusus; the lobes are repand or terminate in from 3 to 5 accute angular points, while their margins are indented with irregular and somewhat circular incissures. the petiole is celindric smoth and 7 inches long. the leaf 8 inches in length and 12 in bredth. this tree is frequently”
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
“Then, in the early 1990’s, in quick succession, the readback heads – which were inductors akin to miniature electrical transformers – were repand then by giant magnetoresistive GMR heads.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘repand’.
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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Wavy, Waved or Wavelike
Words meaning wavy, waved or wavelike
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