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equitant
[ ek-wi-tuhnt ]
adjective
- straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.
equitant
/ ˈɛ°ì·Éɪ³ÙÉ™²Ô³Ù /
adjective
- (of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of equitant1
Example Sentences
After his tenure at Avis, Mr. Rand was chief executive of Equitant, a management services company later purchased by IBM.
In 2003, I joined Equitant, a provider of outsourced management services.
Rush-like herbs, with equitant leaves sheathing the base of a naked scape, which is terminated by a head of perfect 3-androus flowers, with extrorse anthers, glumaceous calyx, and a regular colored corolla; the 3-valved mostly 1-celled capsule containing several or many orthotropous seeds with a minute embryo at the apex of fleshy albumen.
Fibrous-rooted, with equitant leaves and perfect 3- or 6-androus flowers.
Root not bulbous; leaves equitant in two ranks.
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