Incubousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

incubous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.
   • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, “Morphology of the Vegetative Organs”, in The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 482:

     If the apical cell is slightly postically displaced, an incubous orientation of the leaf rudiments ensues […]

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “of leaves”): succubous

派生語

• incubously

関連する語

• incubus

参考

incubous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia