EQUITANT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
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 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Eq"ui*tant\, a. [L. equitans, -antis, p. pr. of
equitare to ride, fr. eques horseman, fr. equus horse.]
1. Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
2. (Bot.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose
bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves
within or above them, as in the iris.
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| | Definition: | | Of leaves, folded in half along the midline so that the adaxial surface disappears, and overlapping the edges of a similarly folded leaf on the opposite side of the stem. |
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