accrescent

English

Etymology

From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkɹɛsənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)

1. Growing; increasing.
   • 1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World:

     whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration

2. (botany) Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
   • 2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6

     The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.

Related terms

• accrescence
• accretional
• accretive

Translations

growing

• Latin: accrescens

botany

• Catalan: acrescent (ca)
• Portuguese: acrescente (pt)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kʁɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /a.kʁe.sɑ̃/

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Adjective

accrescent (feminine accrescente, masculine plural accrescents, feminine plural accrescentes)

1. (botany) accrescent

Further reading

• “accrescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

accrēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of accrēscō