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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Having a somewhat wavy margin: a repand leaf.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, wavy or wavy-margined; tending to be sinuate, but less uneven; undulate: said chiefly of leaves and leafmargins.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany, zoology Having a slightly undulating margin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot. & Zool.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having a slightly undulating margin

Etymologies

  1. Latin repandus bent backward, turned up; prefix re- re- + pandus bent, crooked. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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