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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EXCURRENT

From Latin excurrere to run forth.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EXCURRENT

excurrent  [ɛkˈskʌrənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXCURRENT

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

WHAT DOES EXCURRENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of excurrent in the English dictionary

The first definition of excurrent in the dictionary is having an outward flow, as certain pores in sponges, ducts, etc. Other definition of excurrent is extending beyond the margin of the leaf. Excurrent is also having an undivided main stem or trunk, as the spruce and other conifers.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXCURRENT


blackcurrant
ˌblækˈkʌrənt
concurrent
kənˈkʌrənt
countercurrent
ˈkaʊntəˌkʌrənt
crosscurrent
ˈkrɒsˌkʌrənt
currant
ˈkʌrənt
current
ˈkʌrənt
decurrent
dɪˈkʌrənt
incurrent
ɪnˈkʌrənt
intercurrent
ˌɪntəˈkʌrənt
noncurrent
ˌnɒnˈkʌrənt
nonrecurrent
ˌnɒnrɪˈkʌrənt
occurrent
əˈkʌrənt
photocurrent
ˈfəʊtəʊˌkʌrənt
recurrent
rɪˈkʌrənt
redcurrant
ˈrɛdˈkʌrənt
supercurrent
ˈsuːpərˌkʌrənt
transcurrent
trænzˈkʌrənt
uncurrent
ʌnˈkʌrənt
undercurrent
ˈʌndəˌkʌrənt
up-current
ˈʌpˌkʌrənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXCURRENT

excubant
excudit
exculpable
exculpate
exculpation
exculpatory
excurse
excursion
excursion train
excursionise
excursionist
excursionize
excursive
excursively
excursiveness
excursus
excusable
excusableness
excusably
excusal

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXCURRENT

abhorrent
air current
alternating current
BitTorrent
dark current
deterrent
different
direct current
eddy current
electric current
horrent
Humboldt Current
Japan Current
Labrador Current
North Atlantic Current
nuclear deterrent
Peru Current
residual current
rip current
torrent
turbidity current

Synonyms and antonyms of excurrent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «excurrent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXCURRENT

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Translator English - Chinese

excurrent
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excurrent
570 millions of speakers

English

excurrent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

excurrent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إفراغي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

excurrent
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excurrente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

excurrent
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exhalant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berulang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

excurrent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

excurrent
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

excurrent
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

excurrent
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெளியேற்று
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्स्फूर्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

excurrent
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

excurrent
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

excurrent
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

excurrent
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excurrent
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

excurrent
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

excurrent
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

excurrent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

excurrent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of excurrent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCURRENT»

The term «excurrent» is used very little and occupies the 152.605 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCURRENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «excurrent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «excurrent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXCURRENT»

Discover the use of excurrent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to excurrent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Morphology of Flowers and Inflorescences
The excurrent tips known from foliage leaves often exhibit unifacial, point-like terminal sections, whose growth is hastened on before the development of the corresponding lamina. In this case it is the cross zone at the boundary between the ...
Focko Weberling, 1992
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Gametes - The Spermatozoon
Post-testicular. sperm. maturation. and. transport. in. the. excurrent. ducts. H. D. M. MOORE Introduction On release from the seminiferous epithelium of the testis, the spermatozoon has completed a striking and unique morphological ...
Jurgis Gediminas Grudzinskas, J. L. Yovich, 1995
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Bulletin
Plants large, vigorous, medium dark green; leaves very large and broad, a little wrinkled; margin somewhat dentate and curled; nerves branching but not distinctly radiating from any single point, rather strong; midnerve large, strong, excurrent.
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Bulletin B
Plants targe, vigorous, medium dark, green; leaves very large and broad, a little wrinkled: margin somewhat dentate and curled; nerves branching but not distinctly radiating from any single point, rather strong; midnerve large, strong, excurrent.
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Bulletin
Plants large, vigorous, medium dark green; leaves very large and broad, a little wrinkled; margin somewhat dentate and curled; nerves branching but not distinctly radiating from any single point, rather strong; midnerve large, strong, excurrent.
Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, 1892
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Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. ...
Epallax in general terms to a Placina detached from its seat, turned sideways up, and furnished with additional oscules opening through the hypophare, one for each excurrent sinus. In Placina the roots of the excurrent evaginations are ...
Great Britain. Challenger Office, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, 1888
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Journal of Botany: British and Foreign
British and Foreign Berthold Seemann. base, and gradually becoming slightly narrower to near the apex, where it is very suddenly narrowed off to the excurrent nerve — indeed the leaf is much more nearly ligulate than in the typical form ; the  ...
Berthold Seemann, 1876
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Dictionary of Natural Resource Management
Typically, strong apical dominance of current growth creates weak apical control of the subsequent growth, and vice versa, although many plants may initially exhibit an excurrent growth pattern initially but change to a decurrent pattern in later ...
Katherine Dunster, 2011
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Pirone's Tree Maintenance
These factors produce three basic tree forms: columnar, excurrent, and decurrent (Fig. 7-1). In the technical sense, the term columnar shape is used to describe trees whose terminal growth is concentrated in a single growing point, for example ...
John R. Hartman Professor of Plant Pathology, Thomas P. Pirone Professor of Plant Pathology both at University of Kentucky, Mary Ann Sall Professor of Plant Pathology both at University of Kentucky, 2000
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Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. ...
Epallax in general terms to a Placina detached from its seat, turned sideways up, and furnished with additional oscules opening through the hypophare, one for each excurrent sinus. In Placina the roots of the excurrent evaginations are ...
Great Britain. Challenger Office, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, 1888

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXCURRENT»

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1
Richness of Malta's simple plants
The wall-screw moss (Tortula muralis) is characterised by very long hairy white structures known as excurrent nerves. The long seta and ... «Times of Malta, Jun 15»
2
Extremely Rare Deep-Water Pocket Shark Caught in Gulf of Mexico
Nostrils small and directed forward with incurrent apertures spaced further apart than excurrent apertures. Eyes positioned level with nostrils ... «Sci-News.com, Apr 15»
3
What caused the Cambrian Explosion?
But with minor morphological “tinkering” with this excurrent tube, a powerful new means of locomotion came about. Breathing and moving could ... «Boing Boing, Mar 15»
4
Australian fishermen catch “horrific-looking” frilled shark
The head is broad and flattened with a short, rounded snout. The nostrils are vertical slits, separated into incurrent and excurrent openings by a ... «SFGate, Jan 15»
5
A Few Moments With an Earthly Alien Close Cousin to You
In the photo below, the incurrent siphon is on top, and the excurrent siphon is on the side of each animal. In a pyrosome, the incurrent siphons ... «Scientific American, Aug 14»
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Amazing close-up video of Great Barrier Reef animals
1:52-2:02:01 — DEAR GAWD! Is that the excurrent canal of a sponge?! I can't think of what else it would be, but at the same time I kinda don't ... «Deep-Sea News, Mar 14»
7
Fisherman catches cosmopolitan planktonic tunicate. You'll never …
It both swims and feed by pumping water through its body, filtering out plankton and expelling a jet of water from an organ called the excurrent ... «Southern Fried Science, Jan 14»
8
This Deep-Sea Predator is the Love Child of a Macaron and a Snork
... oral siphon and an excurrent or atrial siphon. In the deep-sea tunicate family Octacnemidae the oral siphon is enlarged and contains lobes. «Deep-Sea News, Sep 13»
9
Humans, tunicates share a common bond
An adult tunicate can best be described as a sac with an incurrent and excurrent siphon through which water enters and exits, bringing in tiny ... «Seacoastonline.com, Aug 11»
10
Ewwww, What's That?!
... that brings in water. They filter out particles of organic matter suspended in the water and squirt the filtered water out of the colonys collective excurrent siphon. «Wrightsville Beach Magazine, Sep 08»

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