EGAVE

decurrent

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of plant parts: extending downward, most often in the case of leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem.
  2. adjective Of lamellae (the gills of a mushroom): broadly attached and extending down the stipe of the mushroom.
    In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is decurrent.
  3. adjective Running or extending downwards.

Similar words

gills subdecurrent surcurrent decumbent dorsal excurrent inflected nodding hypophyllous attenuate

Often followed by

on at base tooth gills bases and leaf to

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