excurrent

/ik-skur-uhnt, -skuhr-/US // ɪkˈskɜr ənt, -ˈskʌr- //UK // (ɛkˈskʌrənt) //

冗长的,冗长的时间,冗长,冗长的声音

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : running out or forth.
- : Zoology. giving passage outward; affording exit: the excurrent canal of certain sponges.
- : Botany. having the axis prolonged so as to form an undivided main stem or trunk, as the stem of the spruce.projecting beyond the apex, as the midrib in certain leaves.

Its excurrent branches are very different from those of other elms.
When the main trunk of a tree extends upward through the head to the tip, as in Fig. 3, it is said to be excurrent.
Medium-sized tree with mainly an excurrent trunk and horizontal branches.
Achenes top-shaped, 5-costate, villous; pappus of 5–10 long thin scales, awn-tipped by the excurrent nerve.
But this tree of evolution is an excurrent stem, continuous through the clustering branches to the terminal shoot—man.