Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having a position intermediate between erect and spreading.
- In entomology, having, as the wings of an insect when in repose, the anterior pair erect or nearly so, and the posterior pair horizontal, as in the skipper-butterflies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.
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The _spikelets_ are about 1/4 inch long, erecto-patent.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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