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appressed

ap·pressed

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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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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.
Kirkii of New Zealand, in which some branches bear small and appressed leaves, while in others the leaves are much longer and more spreading.
Cupressoides, &c. (also Polycladus cupressinus, a Composite), and some of the cypresses and other conifers with small appressed leaves.
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).

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