accrescent
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /əˈkɹɛsənt/
Adjective

accrescent

  1. Growing; increasing.
  2. (botany) Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
    The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.
    Bean (2012) "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
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