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innovant

innovant adjective: growing out of older branches rather than from the main stem.

Adjective

innovant (not comparable)

  1. Growing out of older branches rather than from the main stem.
    • These all agree with typical Thysananthus in habit, rooting flagella, lingulate leaves, repeatedly and closely innovant inflorescence, and trigonous perianths; and only differ in the entire underleaves and perianths.1884, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 15, page 71
    • Secondary less rigid, paler brown, ascending, simple or dichotomous, innovant in older plants.1894, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Handbook of British Hepaticae, page 158

Questions about innovant

What does innovant mean?
Innovant means growing out of older branches rather than from the main stem.
What part of speech is innovant?
Innovant is an adjective.

Words near innovant in the dictionary

  1. innominate substance
  2. innominate vein
  3. innominate veins
  4. innominates
  5. innominatum
  6. innovant
  7. innovate
  8. innovated
  9. innovates
  10. innovating
  11. innovatingly

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