incubously
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editincubously (not comparable)
- (botany) In an orientation such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.
- 1966, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 481:
- […] such as in the Lepidoziaceae (with primarily incubously inserted leaves […]
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edit- (antonym(s) of “of leaves”): succubously
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editin an orientation such that distal parts of older leaves overlap the proximal parts of younger ones