equitant

/ek-wi-tuhnt/US // ˈɛk wɪ tənt //UK // (ˈɛkwɪtənt) //

等离子,等价物,等价的,等位

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
Botany.
- : straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.

Involucral leaves numerous, equitant; perianth ovate-subulate or narrowly fusiform, 3-angled, deeply 6–8-lobed.
These are tufted perennial grasses with rigid equitant leaves at the base.
The nodes are glabrous mostly bearing tufts of leaves with compressed equitant sheaths.
Nodes are glabrous and dark-ringed, and with fan-like spreading equitant leaf-sheaths and leaves more especially when rooting.
The leaf-sheaths are smooth, equitant with thinly membranous margins.