succubous
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editsuccubous (not comparable)
- (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.
- 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 482:
- If the apical cell is slightly antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results […]
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edit- (antonym(s) of “of leaves”): incubous
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editdescribing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal parts of older leaves overlap the distal parts of younger ones