accrescent
adjUK /əˈkɹɛsənt/
Etymology From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).
1
Growing; increasing.
- whose living growth is more and more conspicuous , and daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World:
2
Biology, Botany, Natural sciences 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.2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6
- Related terms
- accrescence, accretional, accretive