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Meaning of "accrescent" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACCRESCENT

From Latin accrēscere to continue to grow, from crēscere to grow.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ACCRESCENT

æˈkrɛsənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACCRESCENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Accrescent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ACCRESCENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of accrescent in the English dictionary

The definition of accrescent in the dictionary is continuing to grow after flowering.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACCRESCENT

adularescent · antidepressant · arborescent · calorescent · crescent · decrescent · depressant · excrescent · florescent · fluorescent · glabrescent · increscent · nigrescent · nonfluorescent · phosphorescent · putrescent · subarborescent · suppressant · virescent · vitrescent

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACCRESCENT

accredit · accreditable · accreditation · accreditation officer · accredited · accrescence · accrete · accretion · accretion disc · accretionary · accretionary prism · accretionary wedge · accretive · accrew · Accrington · accroides · accruable · accrual · accrual rate · accrue

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACCRESCENT

adolescent · ascent · chemiluminescent · convalescent · descent · effervescent · Fertile Crescent · incandescent · iridescent · line of descent · luminescent · nascent · photoluminescent · prepubescent · quiescent · recent · Red Crescent · reminiscent · scent · senescent · the crescent

Synonyms and antonyms of accrescent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «accrescent» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ACCRESCENT

Find out the translation of accrescent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of accrescent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «accrescent» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

期增大
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

acrescente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

accrescent
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

accrescent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

accrescent
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

разрастающийся
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

accrescent
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রমবদ্র্ধিত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

accrescents
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sabit
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

accrescent
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

accrescent
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

accrescent
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Accrescent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

accrescent
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வளர்கிற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वर्धित
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

oluksuz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

accrescente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

accrescent
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

розростається
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

accrescent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

accrescent
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

accrescent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

accrescent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

accrescent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of accrescent

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCRESCENT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about accrescent

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCRESCENT»

Discover the use of accrescent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to accrescent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Biodiversity of African Plants
Accrescent sepals occur also in other tribes to varying degrees. ... The Poraneae are characterized by an accrescent, wing-like calyx enclosing a one-seeded indehiscent fruit with a thin to thick chartaceous pericarp, and the style with simple or ...
L.J.G. Van der Maesen, X.M. van der Burgt, J.M. van Medenbach de Rooy, 1996
2
Flora of tropical Africa
All the sepals accrescent . . . . .6. Cladostiqma. Tkibe III. Poraneae. — Flowers generally small and racemose or panicled (in sessile or subsessile axillary cymes in Prevostea). Bracts or sepals accrescent . Corolla various. Stamens generally ...
Daniel Oliver, 1906
3
Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Malpighiales
Fruit separated into one to several black drupelets on an accrescent reddish receptacle. Embryo straight or curved. n 1⁄4 12, 14. About 85 spp. in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and Asia. The separation of Brackenridgea is dubious, and ...
Klaus Kubitzki, 2013
4
A Study of Allocarya
Plants conspicuously strigillose, slender-stemmed; calyx not conspicuously accrescent. Racemes rather dense. Inflorescence with many bracts; bristles of nutlet mostly in tufts. 17. A. nelsoni. Inflorescence with few bracts; bristles mostly solitary ...
Charles Vancouver Piper, 1920
5
Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
Perianths of the female flowers covered in clavate hairs; bracts of the female flowers strongly accrescent and hiding the flowers in fruit 1. P. alsinifolia + Perianth of female flowers with straight or hooked (never clavate) hairs; bracts of female ...
Anthony G. Miller, Thomas A. Cope, J. A. Nyberg, 1996
6
100 Families of Flowering Plants
... flower differs from those illustrated in C in having shorter perianth-lobes. Female flower: 1.75x0.75 mm Bisexual flower at early anthesis. The anther- lobes are bent downwards and inwards in front of the free, accrescent perianth- segments.
Michael Hickey, Clive King, 1988
7
An Excursion Flora of Central Tamilnadu, India
Petals 5, free, contorted. Stamens c. 15, free; filaments short, often dilated at base ; connectives appendaged. Ovary superior, 3-celled; ovules 2, pendulous; style subulate; stigma lobed. Capsule indehiscent, crowned by accrescent sepals ...
K. M. Matthew, 1995
8
Flora Europaea: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae
Epicalyx-segments ovate to oblong, free nearly to the base, shorter than the sepals; sepals broadly triangular-ovate, strongly accrescent, completely covering the ripe fruit; petals 8-15 mm, purple. Dorsal face of mericarps flat, reticulate; lateral ...
T. G. Tutin, V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burges, 1968
9
A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
Calyx 3-5partite, sometimes accrescent, spathaceous in Gluta. Petals 3-5, alternate with the sepals, free, rarely O, imbricate or valvate in bud, sometimes accrescent. Disk flat, cup-shaped or annular, entire or lobed, rarely obsolete. Stamens as ...
George Watt, 2014
10
Flora of North America: Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Dilleniidae
Flowers urn-, cup-, or bellshaped; sepals accrescent or not, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–10 mm; petals white, obovate, oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 4.5–10 mm, 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide, 0.5–1.1 ...
Flora of North America Editorial Committee,, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCRESCENT»

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Over Rs 27 cr of dubious financial cos frozen
... Karma India Project & Services Ltd, Friends Marketing, Prativa Industries Ltd, Borail Properties Pvt Ltd and Accrescent Way Marketing Pvt Ltd. «Assam Tribune, Dec 13»
REFERENCE
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