humifuse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin humus (“ground”) + fusus, past participle of fundere (“to spread”).
Adjective
[edit]humifuse (comparative more humifuse, superlative most humifuse)
- (botany) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Humifuse.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.
- “humifuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.