appressed

ap·pressed

pressed close to or flat against a surface: said esp. of a leaf or plant part

Origin of appressed

from Classical Latin appressus, past participle of apprimere from ad-, to + primere, to press

appressed

adjective

Lying flat or pressed closely against something, as hairs on certain plant stems.

Origin of appressed

From Latin appressus past participle of apprimere to press down ad- ad- premere to press ; see per-⁴ in Indo-European roots.

appressed

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of appress

Adjective

(comparative more appressed, superlative most appressed)

(biology, mycology) Closely flattened down.

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Sentence Examples

Long, appressed to the ground, of a pale colour and with a sticky surface.
Cupressoides, &c. (also Polycladus cupressinus, a Composite), and some of the cypresses and other conifers with small appressed leaves.
Igneous intrusions consist only of unimportant dikes of trap. The most striking and uniformly characteristic geologic feature of the mountains is their internal structure, consisting of innumerable parallel, long and narrow folds, always closely appressed in the eastern part of any crosssection (Piedmont Plateau to Great Valley), less so along a central zone (Great Valley and Valley Ridges), and increasingly open on the west (Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus).
The outermost hyphae may even put forth thinner hyphae, radiating into the soil like root-hairs, and the convergent tips may be closely appressed and so divided by septa as to resemble the root-apex of a higher plant (Armillaria mellea).
The needle-form represented by Pinus, Cedrus, Larix, &c., the linear flat or angular leaves, appressed to the branches, of Thuja, Cupressus, Libocedrus, &c. The flat and comparatively broad leaves of Araucaria imbricata, A.

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