Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a decursive manner; decurrently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a decursive manner.
- adverb (Bot.) having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.
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- adverb botany In a
decursive manner.
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Page view page image: the central rib, smooth and of a deep green. near the upper extremity these leafets are decursively pinnate as are also those of the large firn. 1
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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The small firn also rises with a common footstalk from the radix and are from four to eight in number. about 8 inches long; the central rib marked with a slight longitudinal groove throughout it's whole length. the leafets are oppositely pinnate about 1/3 rd of the length of the common footstalk from the bottom and thence alternately pinnate; the footstalk terminating in a simple undivided nearly entire lanceolate leafet. the leafets are oblong, obtuse, convex absolutely entire, marked on the upper disk with a slight longitudinal groove in place of the central rib, smooth and of a deep green. near the upper extremity these leafets are decursively pinnate as are also those of the large f rn.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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