percurrent

English

Etymology

From Latin percurrens, present participle of percurrere (“to run or pass through”), from per (“through”) + currere (“to run”).

Adjective

percurrent (not comparable)

1. (botany) Running through the entire length; running through from top to bottom, as the midrib of a dicotyledonous leaf, the nerve of a moss-leas, or a grass-palet, etc.

Derived terms

• percurrently

Further reading

• “percurrent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “percurrent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “percurrent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• precurrent

Latin

Verb

percurrent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of percurrō