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equitant

[ ek-wi-tuhnt ]

adjective

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


equitant

/ ˈɛ°ì·Éɪ³ÙÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. (of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of equitant1

1820–30; < Latin equitant- (stem of ±ð±ç³Ü¾±³ÙÄå²Ô²õ ) (present participle of ±ð±ç³Ü¾±³ÙÄå°ù±ð to ride), equivalent to equit- (stem of eques; equites ) + -ant- -ant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of equitant1

C19: from Latin ±ð±ç³Ü¾±³ÙÄå²Ô²õ riding, from ±ð±ç³Ü¾±³ÙÄå°ù±ð to ride, from equus horse
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Example Sentences

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After his tenure at Avis, Mr. Rand was chief executive of Equitant, a management services company later purchased by IBM.

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In 2003, I joined Equitant, a provider of outsourced management services.

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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.

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Fibrous-rooted, with equitant leaves and perfect 3- or 6-androus flowers.

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Root not bulbous; leaves equitant in two ranks.

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