adpress
English edit
Etymology edit
An adaptation of adpress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adprimō, variant spelling of apprimō.
Verb edit
adpress (third-person singular simple present adpresses, present participle adpressing, simple past and past participle adpressed)
- Alternative form of appress
- 1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark:
- Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.
References edit
- “adpress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.