adpress

English

Etymology

An adaptation of adpress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adprimō, variant spelling of apprimō.

Verb

adpress (third-person singular simple present adpresses, present participle adpressing, simple past and past participle adpressed)

1. Alternative form of appress
   • 1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark:

     Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.

References

• “adpress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Persads, spaders, sparsed, spreads