accrescent
UK/əˈkɹɛsənt/
accrescent adjective: growing; increasing.
Adjective
accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)
- Growing; increasing.
- whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World
- Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
- The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
accrescent meaning in Tamil and Kannada
accrescent in Tamil
- மேன்மேலும் வளர்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கிற
accrescent in Kannada
- ಬೆಳೆಯುತ್ತಲೇ ಹೋಗುವ
Forms of accrescent
| comparative | more accrescent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most accrescent |
Origin of accrescent
From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
Words that rhyme with accrescent
- crescent
- evanescent
- deliquescent
- fluorescent
- incandescent
- efflorescent
- quiescent
- senescent
- acquiescent
- arborescent
- circumcrescent
- convalescent
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- depressant
- effervescent
- erubescent
- excrescent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lapidescent
- pubescent
- recrudescent
- reflorescent
- spinescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- acaulescent
- adipescent
- adularescent
- adultescent
- adultolescent
- agonescent
- albescent
- alcalescent
- alkalescent
- antidepressant
- autofluorescent
- autoluminescent
- biofluorescent
- bioluminescent
- calescent
- candescent
- cathodoluminescent
- caulescent
- cerulescent
- cessant
- chemifluorescent
- chemiluminescent
- chemoluminescent
- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
- contabescent
- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
- detumescent
Questions about accrescent
- What does accrescent mean?
- Accrescent means growing; increasing.
- What is accrescent in Tamil?
- Accrescent in Tamil is மேன்மேலும் வளர்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கிற. See Accrescent meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is accrescent?
- Accrescent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce accrescent?
- Accrescent is pronounced /əˈkɹɛsənt/ (UK).
Words near accrescent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: accrescent (page history and authors); accrescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accrescent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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