succubous

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  • Homophone: succubus

Adjective

succubous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.
    • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, 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 antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results […]

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