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equitant
[ ek-wi-tuhnt ]
adjective
- straddling or overlapping, as leaves whose bases overlap the leaves above or within them.
equitant
/ ˈɛɪəԳ /
adjective
- (of a leaf) having the base folded around the stem so that it overlaps the leaf above and opposite
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ 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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