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adnexed

adnexed adjective: narrowly attached to a stem or stipe.

adnexed: narrowly attached to a stem or stipe
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Adjective

adnexed (not comparable)

  1. Narrowly attached to a stem or stipe.
    • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is adnexed.

Origin of adnexed

From Latin adnexus (“annexed, attached”).

Questions about adnexed

What does adnexed mean?
Adnexed means narrowly attached to a stem or stipe.
What part of speech is adnexed?
Adnexed is an adjective.

Words near adnexed in the dictionary

  1. adneural
  2. adnexa
  3. adnexal
  4. adnexectomies
  5. adnexectomy
  6. adnexed
  7. adnexitides
  8. adnexitis
  9. adnexum
  10. Adney
  11. Adneys

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